If your hobby is drawing, and you’re just starting out, then you might want to look at finding out how to draw cartoons. Cartoons are a popular way for many young artists to express themselves, and as fun as it is, the techniques and skills used in creating cartoons can be applied to other more “serious” drawings. This is especially true when drawing the human form. It can be challenging to get the correct look for a person on paper, and by starting with cartoons you can learn a lot of the fundamental structures required when drawing pictures of people.
Learning to draw cartoons of people is often easier than drawing animal cartoons, because people essentially have the same basic shape and structure. Animals have a wide range of shapes and sizes, and while some might be simpler than others, there isn’t much about animal shapes that is universal. But when you draw people, there is the standard oval shape for a head, rectangles for legs and arms, and of course the same balance of two arms and two legs.
There are many drawing techniques for learning how to draw cartoons, but starting with stick figures is an easy approach. Make a standard stick figure and draw a line down the middle, bisecting the image. Use the eraser and work at drawing the stick figure so that it completely matches from left to right. The point of this is to work on developing the ability to make an image symmetrical and to keep proportions correct. Add simple circles and ovals for hands and feet as you continue to work on this skill.
The next step when drawing cartoons of people is to go beyond rounded stick figures. This means really looking at the human shape and at all the bones there are in our bodies, specifically in the arms and legs. To draw people you need to look at the joints in our arms and legs and make the necessary bends to the structure of your stick figure. Add rectangles to fill out the thinness of your stick drawing and with a little detail in clothes and the face, you’ll have created a simple cartoon person.
Learning how to draw cartoons is a fun way to learn how to draw, and a good way to get drawing tips so you can draw a person. It can be frustrating to try and create a more realistic looking person on paper, especially if you are new to drawing or don’t have the innate ability. If you start with cartoons, then you can learn the foundation of creating realistic objects by getting the hang of symmetry and proportions, and learning how the body actually looks. Once you have that down, you can move on to more challenging images.