Drawing Cartoon Step by Step

Drawing a cartoon is easy and fun since you get to really draw without many limits compared to realistic and other types of drawings. Here’s the basic steps used in almost all types of cartooning. Enjoy!

Collect the proper materials such as pencil, pen, and coloring materials. Before you can start drawing, drawing materials are the things you need to have. Coloring materials you can use in cartooning can be crayons, color pencils, water colors, and many more.

Sketch the draft lines. First thing to do in cartooning is to make the draft illustration of the character using a pencil, preferably an HB pencil. The draft consists of the main shapes of the cartoon character’s body and clothes, the position, the expression and the hair.

Draw the cartoon character using a pen. A drawing pen is the preferred pen to use in papers since it provides you a variety of choices of width. Moreover, drawing pens are easy to use and produces cleaner drawing.

Color as you like. You can use any medium you like and you can color it the way you want.