How to Draw Details on a Cartoon Character

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Hi, I'm Danny Page and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. In this series, I'm going to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters. Okay, so we're pretty much done with this character here. We've given him a head, upper body, hands, legs, feet, and I'd say at this point we're pretty much near the end. There's only a couple of steps left really in this whole first creation process of drawing a character from scratch. One we are going to tackle right now is the details. Another step might be throwing in a light source coming maybe from this side and giving him some shading. Really making him kind of pop off the page. That's really more advanced stuff and we're not going to bother you with that for now. We're just going to go into the little bit of details that make the character just more of a complete, realistic looking character. Just the little things like maybe some a few buttons here to kind of make his shirt look more real. Maybe a few put a few little wrinkles in there, a little bit more definition so it looks like the sleeves are all wrinkled. As you are doing these you are going to want to use, just lightly use the tip of your pen there. Obviously, if you come on drawing it to hard the line will be to thick and you want really thin lines. Maybe throw in a few more wrinkles in there. Kind of gather the ones you have a little bit more to go on. This is also you're chance to kind of correct a few mistakes you might have made in the beginning. Just basically go over the drawing with a fine tooth comb and allow yourself to make a few little improvements before you send the thing off. Also, if there is ever a point where you sort of were kind of timidly drawing in the lines and not to confident with your strokes. This would be the time to kind of go over those and just fix them and make them look a little bit more polished and defined. Alright, so then just take an overall quick look over and make sure everything looks the way you want it to. Here it is, this is your character. And, yeah, be happy. You just created something from scratch and here it is. Obviously, if you're developing a story of some kind or a comic book. You'll take this design and apply it to a whole bunch of different looks and poses. But this is basically, this will be you're starting point. This will be the thing that a lot of times you'll go back to as you're crafting out different scenes, designs, looks. You'll kind of go back to your original and so you'll be like alright, so this is the character I created in the beginning. You'll go on from there.

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