Ultimate Cartoon Drawing: Create Your Own Character

Learn to draw cartoon hands fast by starting with simple geometric shapes, forming a square palm, equal-distance fingers, and a sausage-shaped thumb, then refine with organic lines.

Learn to add eyes, ears, nose, and mouth to a cartoon head and draw it at different angles using simple pac-man eyes, pupils, and eyebrows.

Place eyes on the eye line on a sphere head, using center and horizontal guidelines to shape 3D angles and ellipses for looking up left or down right.

Learn to draw cartoon noses using eye techniques and adapt them to human and animal characters, with shapes like bump, circle, and long noses.

Learn to draw a variety of cartoon mouths for male and female characters, in front and side angles, from happy to terrified expressions, with teeth and lipstick options.

Draw the mouth on your character from front to profile, align the hinge line with the top lip, and keep symmetry along the center dividing line.

Master drawing ears for your cartoon character, from simple human ear shapes to animal ears, and learn to attach them to the head with rounded edges and guidelines.

Explore the three head rule to build cartoon proportions from head to feet, using eye lines, ear placement, nose, mouth, and hands, fingers, toes, and limbs sized consistently.

Break the hand into geometric shapes to understand its structure. Draw a palm rectangle with a sausage-shaped thumb and fingers in open, fist, and profile positions, with a downloadable resource.

Learn to construct a cartoon hand using four sausage-like fingers with dynamic bends, a side thumb, and an ellipse cuff, blending early Disney and Looney Tunes for fluid shapes.

Learn how to draw cartoon hands gripping objects by forming fingers as sausage shapes around a fist and pencil, using cylinders, rings, and a cone, and mastering overlap and cleanup.

Learn to draw cartoon male feet for your character using circles and a simple shoe with a cuff. Explore wedge shapes, rounded toes, heels, and optional soles.

Explore female feet and legs in traditional animation, from Betty Boop style to dainty high heels, using realistic anatomy and dynamic curves.

Practice turning leg shapes into cartoon feet by modeling a leg as a curved cylinder, understanding the shinbone, and drawing feet and fabric for your character.

Master pipe folds and five folds with a top support point, then explore spiral and zigzag folds to drape sleeves and banners, adapting detail for cartoon, anime, or realism.

Observe single and double half lock folds at elbows and knees; identify pinch points and support points from gravity; see how thin versus thick fabrics shape folds in cartoons.

Learn to craft believable draped fabric by mapping support points and pinch points. Model pipe folds and adjust thickness to create convincing folds over objects for more confident character drawing.

Explore essential drawing tools for cartoon character creation, from 110 lb cardstock and white paper to vellum for inking, with graphite, a compass, circle stencil, and a see-through ruler.

Use a t-square to draw perpendicular and parallel lines, align your page with the table edge, and secure the tool for precise, portable drafting.

Choose Strathmore 300 series Bristol paper for final cartoons—acid-free, archival, ultra-smooth, bleed-proof, and recommended by professionals and award-winning artists for long-lasting, finish-ready artwork.

Draw a cartoon character from the king of diamonds using the worksheet. Block in the head, crown, curls, and mustache with simple cylindrical shapes for a Tommy Tune-inspired figure.

Block the axe handle and blade, add a 3D effect, and render a flowing robe with gravity-driven sleeves using simple cartoon folds, translating the card design into a 3D world.

Explore translating a card design into a simple cartoon king by mapping robes, contours, diamonds, circles, stripes, a belt, and zigzag folds, with practice using the workbook.

Learn to draw Super Mario using the three-heads-tall proportion from the Tommy tune model, including the big belly and gloved hands, with red prismacolor pencil for final lines.