Why do my drawings look so cartoonish?

The things that I feel make a drawing ‘cartoony’ are A: rigidity and simplification, B: monoweight and closed lines, C: flat color, lack of depth. A: Rigidity and simplification: Cartoons tend to simplify complex shapes into something more geometric. Blending the line with water makes it much less prominent.

How can I make my drawing look natural?

Tips to Improve Your Realistic Drawing

1. Know and prepare your art supplies.
2. Always start with a light initial sketch, focusing on largest shapes first.
3. Keep in mind that in realism, there are no visible lines.
4. Create gradual, smooth transitions between your different values.

How can I make my drawings accurate?

6 Tips on How to Draw Anything Accurately

1. Start by drawing shapes, not identifiable objects.
2. To draw anything well, consider the negative shapes as much as you do the positive shapes.
3. Visualize and draw the lines you can’t see in order to draw visible lines accurately.
4. Draw connected shapes, not disconnected shapes.

Why are my paintings so flat?

The most likely cause for a flat drawing or painting is the lack of a tonal range. This means not enough variation in lights and darks (values). Often flat drawings lack the extremes of light and dark, what is known as contrast.

What are the best tips for cartoon drawing?

Just experiment a lot while drawing and don’t be afraid if some things just look silly or odd. It’s all a matter of keeping up the practice and developing your cartoon drawing style. This is a cartoon drawing tip that applies to pretty much every art style, not just cartoon.

How do you make a cartoon character look good?

Make the most of your cartoon drawing, don’t settle with basic shapes, and squashing and stretching your characters and environments. Push the limits! Create perfectly squared faces, make an eye look like a Star, exaggerate your figures by making a super long leg and a very tiny one on the same character.

Why is it important to learn basic shapes when drawing cartoons?

If you start with all these basic shapes in mind, it will make the process much easier when you’re cartoon drawing. Not only that, but you’ll start imagining your cartoon character or environment in a 3D space much easier. It will also help you manipulate it and draw it again later on.

Do you think you can’t draw?

If you keep on thinking you can’t draw, you won’t. As you try and draw something realistically and it starts to go ‘wrong’ your inner critic starts to rear its head. Often drawings start off really well and you observe things accurately, it’s only when you get to a perceived ‘tricky’ bit you start to question yourself.