Learn to create expressive cartoon human characters with simple shapes, clear proportions, and engaging details. This course guides you through sketching techniques, facial expressions, poses, and styles to bring cartoon humans to life.
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Learn the essentials of Cartoon Drawing and Human Character Drawing with this practical course on creating expressive and memorable Cartoon Humans. Explore character design, figure drawing, human anatomy, and drawing techniques while developing a strong foundation for cartoon illustration and creative drawing.
Discover how to design distinctive male and female characters using proportions, shapes, shadows, archetypes, and emotions. Through focused lessons on character brainstorming, hero design, personality, and facial expressions, you will develop practical skills for creating engaging characters with personality and visual appeal.
Whether you are interested in Digital Illustration, cartoon illustration, or traditional creative drawing, this course provides valuable techniques for developing confident character artwork. Build your understanding of cartoon humans, explore expressive character design, and strengthen your drawing skills through practical approaches to proportions, anatomy, emotions, and character development.
After completing the Drawing Cartoon Humans course assessment, you will be eligible to receive a CPD-accredited certificate worth £9 from One Education to demonstrate your achievement.
The certificate is also available as a printed hard copy delivered by post for £15.
Learning to draw cartoon humans develops creativity while making character creation more approachable and expressive. This course helps learners explore proportions, anatomy, shapes, poses, facial features, and character design techniques for producing distinctive and engaging cartoon illustrations.
Studying cartoon human drawing can strengthen artistic confidence and illustration skills. Learners can develop their own character styles, experiment with expressive designs, and apply practical drawing techniques to cartoons, digital illustrations, storytelling projects, creative portfolios, and personal artwork.
The Drawing Cartoon Humans course has a total study time of 5 hours, 18 minutes. Learners can work through the programme at a flexible pace, developing practical skills in cartoon drawing, human character design, figure drawing, anatomy, proportions, character development, illustration techniques, and creative cartooning.
The Drawing Cartoon Humans course has no formal entry requirements, making it suitable for beginners and aspiring artists. An interest in cartoon drawing, character design, human anatomy, and creative illustration is beneficial. Basic drawing ability, good English, and reliable internet access are recommended for practising techniques and completing the online training.
1. What is the Drawing Cartoon Humans course?
The Drawing Cartoon Humans course introduces practical techniques for creating expressive and stylised human characters. It covers Cartoon Drawing, Human Character Drawing, Cartoon Humans, Character Design, Figure Drawing, Cartoon Illustration, Human Anatomy, Drawing Techniques, Digital Illustration, and Creative Drawing.
2. Who is the Drawing Cartoon Humans course suitable for?
The course is suitable for aspiring illustrators, cartoonists, character designers, digital artists, animation enthusiasts, students, hobby artists, and anyone interested in developing practical skills in drawing expressive Cartoon Humans and original characters.
3. What will I learn from the Drawing Cartoon Humans course?
You will explore male and female proportions, cartooning, character archetypes, shape and shadow, facial expressions, body structure, hands and feet, Human Anatomy, Character Design, and practical Drawing Techniques for creating distinctive cartoon characters.
4. Do I need previous drawing experience to take this course?
The course can be suitable for learners developing their drawing skills from the foundations. It introduces fundamental concepts such as proportions, shapes, anatomy, and character construction, making it useful for anyone seeking to improve their Cartoon Drawing abilities.
5. What is cartoon character design?
Character Design is the process of developing a character’s visual appearance, proportions, personality, expressions, clothing, and other distinctive features. In Cartoon Illustration, these decisions help make characters recognisable, expressive, and visually engaging.
6. Does the course teach human proportions for cartoon characters?
Yes. The course explores male and female proportions as part of cartoon character construction. Understanding proportions can help artists deliberately exaggerate or simplify the human figure while maintaining a convincing and appealing character design.
| Introduction | |||
| Introduction | 00:02:00 | ||
| THE MALE - Proportions, cartooning and archetypes | |||
| The proportions of the Male body and how to make them cartoony | 00:18:00 | ||
| Polishing The Drawings and Adding costumes and other features to the design | 00:10:00 | ||
| Designing Cartoony Character bu using Shapes and Shadow | |||
| Draw unidentified shapes | 00:10:00 | ||
| Draw a character in Profile | 00:08:00 | ||
| Draw a character from a squarelike shape | 00:10:00 | ||
| Designing a more stylized character | 00:09:00 | ||
| Design characters that come from the same world | 00:21:00 | ||
| Archetypes. The Male Character | |||
| Designing a HERO | 00:08:00 | ||
| Designing a Hero – Part 2 | 00:05:00 | ||
| Designing a Hero – Part 3 | 00:06:00 | ||
| Designing a Hero – Part 4, Defining the character | 00:11:00 | ||
| Designing a Hero – Part 5, A different approach to a heroic character | 00:07:00 | ||
| Designing a Hero – Part 6, A different type of Hero | 00:09:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 1 | 00:12:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 2 | 00:06:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 3 | 00:06:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 4 | 00:07:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 5 | 00:06:00 | ||
| Designing a Villain – Part 6 | 00:05:00 | ||
| BRAINSTORMING SESSION - Design characters using shapes, BONUS LECTURE | |||
| Draw basic shapes | 00:24:00 | ||
| Make a character sheet out of a design of your choice | 00:14:00 | ||
| THE FEMALE - Proportions, Cartooning and Emotions | |||
| Female proportions – Part 1, What are the female proportions | 00:09:00 | ||
| Female Proportions – Part 2, How to stylize the female proportions | 00:08:00 | ||
| Female Proportions – Part 3, How to simplify the design | 00:05:00 | ||
| Designing a HEROINE | |||
| Designing a Heroine – what to think about | 00:12:00 | ||
| Designing a Heroine – Defining the Character | 00:06:00 | ||
| Adding personality to the Character | |||
| How to draw simple poses | 00:09:00 | ||
| Refining the “Stick figure” drawings into nice shapes | 00:08:00 | ||
| Refining the “Stick figure” drawings into nice shapes | 00:08:00 | ||
| Using the character´s different emotions to refine her design | 00:05:00 | ||
| Put your character in motion | 00:08:00 | ||
| FACIAL EXPRESSIONS | |||
| Facial Expression – happy and sad | 00:08:00 | ||
| Facial Expressions – Sneaky, Scared and Content | 00:08:00 | ||
| Refining the Facial Expressions | 00:10:00 | ||
| Order Your Certificate | |||
| Order Your Certificate Now | 00:00:00 | ||
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