How to draw different ages in cartoon

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Hello guys. How are you? Welcome to our another series article of how to draw. You guys can see previous articles in here.

Today we will learn how to draw different ages people in cartoon easily, from a baby to a teenager, a teenager to an adult person.

In order to draw characters of different ages, we all face problems of different kinds. For example, they draw a young character, but after it's done it looks like an older character. Sometimes we draw an older character and it doesn't look old enough. 

So today we are going to solve this problems, and in the midst of these, we will also learn to draw the different ages.

So now let's see how to draw an old gentleman next to a small baby. 

In order to increase or decrease the age, there are mainly three tricks. The eye line placement, shape of the head, and facial features.

Trick one: Eyeline placement is the eyes will be placed, where we will draw the eyes.

Draw two similar shapes on the Eyeline.

If we take the two similar shapes and draw them on different eyeline levels, we will notice that on the lower level it looks exactly like a young girl's face, while on a higher level, it looks like an adult woman's face. 

Changing the eye line levels change the age, because when we are young, our lower portion of the head, like the shoulder's jaw- it doesn't develop as much. And the top of our head looks larger. On the other hand,  an older person has a double chin and a bigger jaw, and the lower portion looks larger. That's why eye line moves to the top.

Trick two: Drawing a different shape for the face also changes the age of a child or an adult. 

So at first, in order to understand, let's draw two mangoes.

A straight mango and an upside down mango.

The first mango, where the top portion is larger can be drawn into a child. And on the mango to our right, we can draw an old man on it.

Basically trick one and trick two are similar as we age the upper portion of our face shrinks, and the lower portion enlarges. That's why the face changes, and we have to draw it differently as well.

Trick two decides wheather the top portion or the bottom portion will be large or small.

Trick three: Now let's start again with a baby.

Let's give him a name. What can be the name? How about Peter? See the hair on Peter's head, that's a feature of his age.

As he grows into an older child, his fluffy hair and small head will remain a feature of his childhood.

And  when Peter grows into a teenager, and young adult, we will notice that the jaw and neck grows rapidly in these age groups. 

The young boy's skinny face and lanky build and the developed shoulder and trendy hairstyle are the iconic facial features of these age groups. 

When Peter becomes 20 or 30 years old, we will see those facial features.

Peter looks damn smart when he is 20 years old.

At 30-40 years, he grows a double chin possibly.

And when he is in the middles age, he begins to lose hair.

And at 60, when he is an old man, his skin begins to stretch.

Another interesting thing is that if we look at the grandpa Peter, if he grows even older to the age of 70, 80, 90- he'll start to lose fat, his teeth, his forehead will grow bigger, and his chin will shrink.

This old grandpa will start to look like a baby again.

So what will happen if he starts to look like baby, Peter and his smaller features and shape?

And this is how you draw the different ages as a full circle in a character's life.

And finally one day grandpa Peter will pass away.

RIP Peter.

I love this Peter character. We should have to keep alive this character. Okay, let's not kill him.

And this is how to draw different ages in cartoon from a baby to an adult, and the life cycles of these ages continue.

In every article, I give tips, these are what I have learned from many places. I have brought all these techniques together and made them into simpler processes. Most of them are what I have learned as I drew, and these are my findings.

Along with that for your self development, learn from plenty of drawing tutorials. And most importantly, to prepare yourself as a cartoonist, this is to draw everyday. 

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