How to Draw Children (Cartoons) - Easy to Follow Tutorial

Hi , my name is Christopher Hart .

I'm a cartoonist and the author of many books on how to draw cartoons .

And today I'd like to show you , give you a kind of a tip on drawing that I think is a helpful one .

And that is that we sometimes make the hair go completely to the side in a front view .

So things don't stay symmetrical .

If it's everything is symmetrical , it's kind of boring .

So let's let's start off with this kind of like fun kid character here that we will draw nice big rounded head , sort of like an oval .

And here is the center line .

I I'll do this over again in marker .

So you'll see it at the end be bolder and the eye line is very low because he's a young character .

The younger you are , the lower your eyes are relative to the size of your head .

Sure , give them some nice big eyes staring straight ahead and bring those pupil , make big pupils and make them make them a little bit a little bit cross eyed .

This is a touch just for a stylistic look when characters looking forward right .

Then I'll give him just a , just a bit of the nostrils because he's young , going to define the nose .

You lost little smile to the side again , not completely symmetrical .

Everything else is very symmetrical .

So you wanna , you know , stay away from making everything just completely , you know , like a formula .

The same thing with the eyebrows .

You can tilt this one up a little bit , this one's a little straighter and she comes out down to the rounded chin , thin and long neck and a boy character .

Again , I'm gonna go with the marker and darken it .

So in afterwards for a little bit of emphasis , ears and , and these do have to be symmetrical .

It's not , not a great idea unless you're really kooky drawings , which you can do uh to make the ears at different levels , the eyes at different levels .

I am however , going to accentuate the different levels of the eyebrows a little bit .

All right , here we go .

Here's the hair I was talking about , start with a diagonal for the part and bring it back in right , right in front of the ear have build it out in back of the head .

You see it adds more , more mask to the head .

So that's why the top half of the head looks bigger than the bottom half of the head .

A lot has to do with the padding of the hair .

Now , we're going to have this come off the side , build this up right over here .

A little more padding up here like this .

All right .

And now that we have this pretty , pretty much in good shape , we , we will start doing it over again in black and white because that was pencil looks like black and white , but it's actually not , it's gray and white .

That's the great thing about scanners though .

You can scan your art to look black .

Only drawback is if you do that gray look that soft look , you fall in love with , with your pencils won't show it'll all be black , it doesn't selectively do it .

So there's some tricks for that and I will go into those later .

A nice big smile and I'm gonna favor one side of the face again .

A little bit of a lower lip , a small lower lip flatten out this side of the face .

But I'm going to round out this side of the face because this , this cheek is pushing this out .

Everything has an action and a reaction .

It's sort of cartooning according to Newton Walls of motion .

And let's see here .

No real interior details for the ears .

Don't really don't really need them .

Is that part and bring it down here .

Feather this out a little bit , a little extra bits of hair showing like that's build it up , make it look very natural .

And there you go .

There is your boy character and a few ideas on how to draw it in the front of you and keep it interesting .

I've got tons of hints like this on drawing faces for cartoons with my book , Cartoon Faces by Crystal Hart .

That's me .

I'm that guy .

So it's a fun book .

It's got tons of hints on all sorts of techniques .

You're not gonna find other places .

I hope you enjoyed this and I enjoy doing it .

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