Make Your Own Cartoon Drawings

Creating cartoon drawing produced a kaleidoscopic of feelings using different shapes either in 2d or 3d animation. To start a cartoon drawing you should know how to identify the different shapes. What are these shapes? spheres or circles, rectangle, squares, oblong, curves, arc, vertical lines and horizontal lines. Today there are lots of mechanical softwares available to generate a drawing. But the most important part to do this is the inclination to finish the illustration.

The principles of drawing is needed, basic rules are: Inclination, Consistency and good BP (behavioral pattern). How to become a good cartoonist? bring your ideas in the surface of your paper and have it published. I found out that there is a tool for this. Check this out.

ANIMATION TRAINING AND CARTOONING

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The power of Basic

Basic refuses no power, and power refuses no basic. The evolution of computing started with the vintage programming- the Basic programming, I can still remember the vintage program of gWBasic and Basica, I used to code my program in  apple computer(the green screen) and in IBM PC computer.

The first thing that I learned was the medieval disk operating system to manipulate the boot up process and file handling management. We need to study the internal and external commands of DOS to to copy a file from another disk and to save a file. Before the basic program was hoarded in the memory of the computer, during the boot up process it will automatically proceed to the basic program.

The father of basic stuff  is Alan Cooper (correct me if I'm wrong). Basic created a ladderization of improvements from simple data crunching to class and object oriented programming.From a unique calling procedure to branch in a target line number using the GOSUB command.The GOSUB command leverage its function to a procedure and event programming in Visual Basic. Basic hoisted its name in the apex of computing.

The famous SCREEN,PSET,PRESET,GET,PRINT and LOCATE commands unleash the graphical prowess of basic to dictate the usefullness of gaming algorithm while  the PEEK and POKE play around with low level programming in storing the value to the memory address.


Here is the tiny vintage code in basic.

10 cls
20 rem-prg by. Dr.F
30 let x = 10
40 let y = 10
50 let total = y+x: for i = 1 to total: print chr$(i):next i
60 end

Did you notice that Basic is a  bit akin to Python?

Basic Cartooning

If you don't know how to draw, you can still hit the drawing board  using the traditional method-pen and paper or you can use the technology, like computer to draw the different objects.Let us attack the problem. Our mission is to create a basic Cartoon character. You can use the Paint Brush to draw, remember that drawings are compose of lines and shapes. Prepare your pencil and paper and start to draw the vertical line and slepping lines, fill up the paper, don't pressure your hands.

The purpose of creating lines is to warm up your fingers and wrist. Practice this technique everyday for 5 Minutes, compare your previous works to your current work. If you are comfortable of doing the lines then its about time you indulge your self to draw the elipse/circle. Fill up the paper with circles.

There is an adage "patience is a virtue" prior going to a combat mission you must equip your self with profuse training and carry a full metal jacket against your foes. Perfection of circle needs an aide of a computer program, for example, you can use the Photoshop or a basic graphic program of Paint Brush.