Handy.
[dc]T[/dc]here’s a principal in cartooning about having good silhouettes for your characters–if the character (or whatever in the drawing) is filled in with black, can you still tell what the image represents? This goes for character design (think about SpongeBob SquarePants–his shape is easy to identify) or just what the character is holding or doing. It ties into another principal of cartooning: exaggeration. I probably wouldn’t hold a box all the way out in front of me in real life, but a cartoon version of me would look better if it did.
As I work to always get better, silhouettes is something I’m pay attention to while drawing lately. Today’s drawing was some good practice in this concept.
Sketched with a Staedtler HB pencil and inked with my Faber-Castell PITT pen set.
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