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Caricature Drawings: Essentials You Need to Know

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Caricatures are basically images shown in an exaggerated way through sketching or pencil strokes. It shows real three dimensional characters and is a powerful art form when used correctly.

The essentials of caricature rely on understanding what the subject is. It is important to find out the uniqueness in your subject before you start. Each individual has a different facial feature and slightly different proportions.

When drawing caricatures, eyes, noses and mouths are prime areas that show the character. Start by mapping the face with lines and simple shapes from which eyes, noses, and mouths are drawn.

When drawing the face, start with nose because everything is proportionate from there. After drawing face, Add personality and props to your drawing. Capturing personality and props to your drawing is what makes it a memorable caricature. 

If you are working from a reference, choose a high-quality photo. Then try to draw big shapes of your subject. Keeping these tips in mind can help you a lot when you are just starting out with caricature drawings.

Cartoon Drawings: What you need to know about drawing faces

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Cartoon drawings needs no introduction. We’ve grown up with them and it has always been a major part of our life.

There are different types of cartoon drawings out there including caricature, editorial, and comic cartoon drawings. No matter which cartoon drawing it is, there is a need to learn about drawing faces. Below are some steps on which how you can master drawing faces in cartoon.

To do face drawings, create your first character. The basic cartoon shape is a circle. From the circle, different proportions of the face are made. Once the circle is ready, draw horizontal and vertical lines intersecting the center.

Start with drawing eyes. Start drawing oval shapes slightly tilt to the side at the top.

After this, draw eyelashes with a slight thickness. Draw the eyebrows just above the eyelashes. Draw both pupils towards the center. 

We can design a jaw of our choice depending on the character sketch. 

When drawing the nose, it is common not to use many details. As for the mouth, It is drawn according to the character sketch. 

The ears are seen from the front side view, so the internal cavities will not appear. Finally, gives some simple hairstyle to your character.

Cartoon Drawing: Tips And Techniques

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Cartoon drawings are fun to draw and see. Cartoon characters are made of various components. Knowing how to draw different parts of a character helps you draw more efficiently. Some tips and techniques for cartoon drawing are:

Start with the head: Draw an oval-shaped head with small ears on each side. Draw a horizontal and vertical line in the middle of the head and make these lines intersect to draw facial features.

Draw the face: In the middle of the head, sketch out the nose and place small circles on each side for glasses. Draw a small line below the mouth for the chin.

Sketch the body: From the bottom of the head, draw two vertical lines going down curving slightly outward. Draw these lines wider apart at the bottom than at the top to form a bell shape. Add the arms to the character and then place the legs and add the shoes. Add some accessories to give a funnier look.

When you’re finished, ink your character and give the final look.