Cartooning 101- Fun With Circles- Simple Cartoon Character

The beauty of cartooning is that there are no real rules. You are free to do anything you want but before you can break the rules you need to learn a few fundamentals. If you think there is no way you can draw your own cartoon character take a look at how easy it is. From a simple circle you can make a little character that with a little writing can come to life and jump right off the page. This entire character was done in Inkscape in less than 5 minutes. Lets see how easy it is.

1. If you cant tell from the picture start with a simple circle.

2. Two smaller circles for eyes. The big circle at this point is a face.

3. To show direction solid smaller circles for iris/pupil inside the eyes.

4. A small half circle in the middle of the big circle as a nose.

5. Another half circle but with the open end up at the bottom of the big circle to be a smiling mouth.

6. Closed half circle under each side of the big circle as feet and now you have a simple cartoon character.

And that is how easy it is to create a simple cartoon characters out of a circle. The use of the eyes and the mouth can be used to convey emotion but more on that in the future….. Until the Future.