Hi, I'm Danny Page and I'm here on behalf
of Expert Village. In this series I'm going
to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters.
Alright, moving on to what I like to call
pre-visualization, where you basically stare
down the page and figure out exactly what
your dimensions are going to be. Now one thing
you're always going to want to have when just
sketching out random ideas and particularly
creating new characters. If you are interested
in writing a comic script or an animated series
or this is sort of the place where all cartoon
artists, visual artists, you know animators
go to create the characters from scratch.
What they will typically do is, they'll have
their canvas, sort of the page that they'll
end up presenting to whoever it is that they're
going to be showing these characters to in
their initial form and then just a couple
pages either above or below it they'll have
their sketch page. Basically where all their
ideas can be put down and won't have to worry
about it looking neat or messy. In fact this
page is going to be getting really, really
crazy messed up cause we're going to be jotting
down just basic ideas as far as dimensions
are concerned. We're not concerned about shapes,
just getting ideas down basically is the only
thing we'll be doing this. So your ideas can
kind of flow you know as you kind like get
ideas for dimensions and like you mess with
certain things and you might decide you know
to do with a different shape like, create
something a little bit more unusual and these
are just rough sketches trying to get a basic
idea as to what it is we're trying to do here.
And there's really no bad ideas on this page.
It's all just free flowing imagination. We're
going to come back to this page quite a bit
as we go. But this is basically your brainstorming
page and this page is going to be your finished
product fed page that we're actually going
to sketch out the actual finished sketch on.
So we'll be kind of rotating back and forth
between the two pages. So good to know that.
Make sure you have a couple pages available
to you, either go out and buy yourself your
own sketch book which you know any self respecting
cartoon artist ought to have one, but if you
just need a couple of pages that will do the
job too. So here we go.