Last week on Cartoon Hour, everyone was doodling away at dogs.
Here are some of the drawings produced by one of the participants. He felt that they didn’t look quite right, but wasn’t sure about how to start fixing them. I made a few suggestions and thought I would be useful to put them all together into an article, so fellow doodles might find it of use.
Thanks to Ronnie Pattani for the original doodles!
The Original Drawings
I traced over the original drawings so I could get more of a feel for how they were first created.
Suggested Alterations
The head looks good, so I simply reduced the size of the neck.
I moved the eyes closer together near the front of the head.
I made the ears a bit more alert.
I again altered the ears so they’re more alert and pointing forwards.
I moved the eyes a little further down, and then made the ears a little bigger and pointing forwards.
Here he’s used a different style of eye, so I stuck with a similar one and again moved them a little further down and along the muzzle.
I moved the ears forward.
I moved the ears further down and along the muzzle, and ears forward.
Here were some recurring points:
Moving the position of the eyes
Changing the position of the ears
Changing the shape of the ears
The new versions
The Original And New Versions Side-By-Side
Further Alterations
I thought I’d have a crack at making a few further alterations.
Over To You
Are there any further alterations you would be tempted to make?
Now have a look at a recent cartoon of your own. If you work digitally, create a transparent layer on top of it and try making some different changes. You could try some of the following:
Move the ears
Move the eyes
Reduce the thickness of a certain feature e.g. neck, nose etc.
Change the shape of a feature e.g. eyes, ears etc.
If you work on paper, then you can use tracing paper.
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