Hi, I'm Danny Page and I'm here on behalf
of Expert Village. In this series I'm going
to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters.
Alright, for this next step we're going to
actually get rid of our friend the black Sharpie
for a moment. We'll get to him later, but
we're going to be doing a little outlining
and basically what outlining is it's a step
that sometimes the more experienced animators
and cartoonists skip over because they're
a little bit more familiar and more comfortable
with the sketching process. But if you're
just kind of starting out and learning the
basic uses and designs of different shapes
and how they fit in to your finished drawing
this is a good step to kind of help you get
a good foundation for the character that you're
eventually going to create. So what we'll
do is take our pencil and we're just going
to go over this page and just visualize what
the final outcome is going to be. Mainly the
dimensions, how big, how wide, how is everything
going to fit and what you're going to do is
just kind of lightly here, you're going to
kind of draw in the rough foundations for
the character and the shapes. All it really
is it's just giving you sort of road maps
to come back over later and you'll have this
sort already predetermined outline that will
help you has you're finally going to this
thing with ink. And what we're doing here,
it's kind of hard for you to see I know, but
I'm just kind of lightly drawing circles,
ovals and other different shapes with this
pencil to kind of get myself a rough idea
of how I'm going to craft this character on
paper. And all you really need to do is lightly
go over the page with your pencil and just
the different shapes that you want are mostly
going to be ovals, circles, just lightly drawn
there on the page and watch your character
slowing take shape. You're not going to stick
to this religiously, but basically it's just
meant to be a rough outline so that when you
come back with your permanent pen you won't
be intimidated by the blank page. You'll have
road map to follow as you craft and create
your character.