Start with a warm up excercises to go from general proportions to exaggerate and simplify them.
Drawing Cartoon People with Tim Hodge
Creature Art Teacher Course
Learn to draw expressive cartoon people with personality and appeal.
Join Tim Hodge for a fun, approachable course on drawing cartoon people.
You’ll learn how to build characters from simple shapes, push expressions, design appealing faces and bodies, and create human characters that feel alive.
Cartoon People
Beginner Friendly
Character Design
Drawing Fundamentals
Beginner Friendly
Character Design
Drawing Fundamentals
What You’ll Learn
Use simple shapes, gesture, expression, proportion, and posing to create appealing cartoon human characters.
Character Appeal
Explore how to simplify faces, bodies, and features while keeping each character readable, expressive, and full of personality.
Course Journey
Practice construction, facial expressions, body language, costume choices, and design decisions that make cartoon people feel believable.
Meet Tim Hodge
Learn from a veteran animation artist, story artist, writer, director, and teacher with decades of professional experience.
Lessons
02 Drawing Hair
Learn tips to draw hair easily while using watercolor.
03 Drawing Different Body Types
Go from normal proportions to exaggerate body types.
04 Painting Santa
Bring to life one of Tim characters created from the last lesson.
05 Hands, Action Poses & Clothing
Gain an understanding in how to simplify hands, poses and clothing when you design characters.
06 Drawing A Superhero
Create a super heroe, from sketching, inking to coloring them.
07 More on Clothing and Folds
Delve into clothing and folds, analyzing how it works.
08 Drawing Caricatures
Excercices to transform historical characters into expressive caricatures.
09 Digital Drawing
Express solid, bright colors in a clearly defined scene with the Procreate approach of Tim.
10 Caricature in Color
Emphasize characteristic elements for your character like Tim does with Tina Turner.
11 Bonus Lesson- Drawing Princesses
Break stereotypes in traditional characters and share your result with the tags #DrawingCartoonPeople #TimHodge
