How to be a cartoonist in just 5 minutes

How to be a cartoonist in just 5 minutes is not professionally written.

First of all, I need to assure you that I am not a fully professional cartoonist. I just am in here to gather all of easy tricks to draw something more smoothly. And in this post, I am gonna actually share with you about how to draw different cartoon shapes or faces in just 5 minutes.

Before I write this post, I browsed on google and youtube to search about how to be a cartoonist in just 5 or 10 or 30 minutes. I read and watched many contents. But I didn't find any shortcut tricks to be a cartoonist.

Yeah. There are no shortcut techniques to be a cartoonist. You have to draw, draw, and draw. But if you don't get some easy tricks, then you might think, to become a cartoonist is too hard. And I will not to let you think like that. If you follow these tips, you will be a cartoonist while you finish the article.

To draw, all we need for this is simple a pen and a white paper.

So, if you are ready with paper and pen, then let's begin...

The first step of drawing different types of cartoon is being able to draw different types of shapes, such as circle, triangle, rectangular and oval.

Actually we can all draw this basic shapes and I say that anyone who can draw these basic shapes can draw any kind of cartoon characters.

You must be thinking--- How???

Let me show you....

Actually it's very easy.

Now on this basic shapes, let's use dots to draw eye.

Then use "greater than" or "smaller than" signs to draw a nose.

And then use inverted "D" to draw a happy face.

Next use "C" and inverted "C" to draw ears. Then MMMMMM or WWWWWW for hair.

Two straight lines can be used for neck and Shirt's collar.

By using this basic shapes we have already drawn 4 different types of cartoon characters. But the problem of using these basic shapes is, there is no variation. 

For example, if I ask you to draw a crowd and you use only these basic shapes to draw faces, it will be hard to differentiate. It will look like they are all each other's twins.

To draw more different types of cartoon character what we do is we mix up these basic shapes with each others. 

Let me show you how.....

First we take a circle and add a square.

Meaning take the upper half of the circle and add the lower half of the square.

In this shape, draw eyes with dots, draw smiley face with inverted "D", draw some hair, and look it has become a baby. 

In the same way, if we do the opposite, such as, first square and then add a circle. It will be square half on top and circle half on the bottom.

Now if we add eyes, nose, mouth, spikey hair, see that baby has turned into an older child. 

Like above, by using these different types of shapes we can create many different faces.

Did you see the picture above? Pairing these basic shapes in the same way, we got a cute baby, a naughty boy, young girl, and aunt. We got a bearded uncle, mustached uncle, an alien, we even got a teenage mutant ninja turtle.

See, we can understand, using this basic shapes, we can easily draw any kind of cartoon character. If we look closely, any of the world famous cartoons around us, can be drawn using this basic shape theory. See the picture below....

And those of you, who are bored with hearing 'basic shape', 'basic shape', you can ignore actually basic shapes. Draw any random shape and add eyes, nose, mouth on them to create new characters. Like this...

Try to draw these shapes. If you create a mistake or don't understand how to draw these pictures while drawing, just let me know it. I will help you.

In this article, I tried to show you how to draw a cartoon face easily. There are so many tricks out there. You can follow them too. But as we got to learn many tricks and tips of creating cartoon faces, I will suggest you, if you continue drawing with these tips and tricks, I am sure from today onwards you guys can call yourself a cartoonist.

So here was the article of how to be a cartoonist in just 5 minutes.

Faces any problem? I will help you in the comment box below....

Keep drawing.....


*all credit goes to Tonmoy