Cartooning: Character Design and Comic Drawing

Cartooning: Character Design and Comic Drawing

Cartooning: Character Design and Comic Drawing

This live class teaches how cartoonists generate ideas and draw characters in a humorous comic style. Lessons include imagination warm-ups, turning scribbles and letters into characters, body parts and facial features, cartoon humans and animals, simplification and exaggeration, and shading techniques like crosshatching and stippling.

Cartooning: Character Design and Comic Drawing

Paid once.

Level
Mixed Level
Ages
12–17
Duration
50 min
Classes
1 / Week
Weeks
8

Class Experience

This live class teaches how cartoonists generate ideas and draw characters in a humorous comic style. Lessons include imagination warm-ups, turning scribbles and letters into characters, body parts and facial features, cartoon humans and animals, simplification and exaggeration, and shading techniques like crosshatching and stippling.

Learning Outcomes

  • Create expressive cartoon characters and simple comic compositions.

  • Use exaggeration to enhance emotional expression in character design.

  • Apply shading techniques such as crosshatching and stippling with a marker.

  • Identify key elements and principles of design used in cartooning.

  • Describe skills and training used by comic artists.

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Meet your Instructor

Joined August, 2026

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A credentialed educator and professional app designer with more than 10 years of coding instruction experience, this instructor has taught in colleges, schools, and community centers and built apps for educational use. Lessons cover game and app design, HTML5 website work, comic…

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