The question of how to draw a cartoon has always arisen in children. Now, when the country's animation industry is on the rise, talented professionals are engaged in it, and technological processes are becoming more and more complicated, this topic does not lose its relevance. Animation masters may have questions about how best to draw cartoons or what to come up with new and unusual in this popular and beloved form of art.
Unforgettable Soyuzmultfilm
In Soviet times, Soyuzmultfilm knew all the answers to the question of how to draw a cartoon. Films for children were drawn, puppet, plasticine.
Nowadays, the old term "animation" (means "reproduction") has been replaced by the new one - "animation". Maybe the second concept is more accurate, it translates as "animation", that is, the movement of the depicted object. The first name, rather, corresponds to the creative process, because there should be many drawings - the more, the better.
The history of moving pictures
The first to the question about how to draw a cartoon, answered Emile Reynaud, he is considered the father of animation. His film “Around the Cabin” marked the beginning of the development of this art form, although it goes back to ancient times, to Etruscan vases, which depict different poses of a running man. The idea of creating an apparatus with which you can reproduce the movement arose when quickly flipping through a book. On its fields in the same place a man was depicted, whose poses changed slightly from sheet to sheet. The same principle was the basis of the Soviet toy for children - the so-called movie camera. The simplest in its structure, it made it possible to see a moving object, depicted on an inserted tape, which was set in motion by scrolling.
Let's sit side by side and draw a cartoon
When playing with a child, the question may also arise about how to draw a cartoon. This occupation can be a long time to captivate the baby. Of course, not any child, but an assiduous man at an age when he can be explained that animation is painstaking work, and at least 100 drawings are required to depict the elementary movement. But all the efforts and labors will be rewarded when the image "cries." This phenomenon can delight any child.
With such a game with the baby, you can try to explain how to draw cartoons in stages. Before starting any lesson, preparation of tools for work is necessary. Equally important is free time and a specific vision of the task - whom we draw, what the subject will do. Of course, at home, most likely, it will be a little man from the series “hands, legs, cucumber”.
Mandatory process conditions
To do this, you need a notebook or general notebook, the number of sheets in which will provide the depicted process of movement, based on the ability of the human eye to save what it sees for a split second. The fewer deviations in the figure shown on the next page, the more smooth the movements of the hero will be. Some eminent, award-winning animation masters create their 10-minute masterpieces over 2 years.
It is advisable to place the drawing in the same place on all pages. So that the process is not boring for the baby, you can ask him to pose.
If the object should raise and lower the hand, then on the page located in the center of the notebook or notebook, the hero’s hand is located at the top, then slowly, from page to page, it is lowered. You can make the picture color, add a background and other objects that do not change, for example, a dog that is still watching the hero, or a ball. Professionals use stencils, against which the action takes place.
The long-awaited and wonderful finale
The film is ready. The child was clearly explained
how to draw cartoon characters. You can begin to "view". The process is as follows: the notebook is held with two hands. The thumb of the right hand must be pressed on the edge of the notebook, opposite the binding. You can bend the subject to the top to provide a quick page turning process. The little man will raise and lower his hand, the child will be delighted!