(Continued from Part 4: Brush and Ink) CHARACTER DESIGN There are countless ways of developing new characters. For this exercise, we’ll be working on faces.ย Ask students to draw a 9-panel grid in their sketchbooks and to draw a different abstract shape in each square. The shapes are not supposed to represent or look like anything…
I came across this video ofย Herge drawing TinTin, and thought it might be fun to put together a compilation of cartoonists drawing their characters on film. While I couldn’t find any videos of Bill Watterson drawingย Calvin and Hobbes, or Gary Larson drawing The Far Side,ย I was able to find some other gems. Charles Schulz drawing…