I went to Central Library and lend a book entitled How to Create Crazy Cartoon Characters
"Everything you can imagine is real" by Pablo Picasso
Creating a memorable character is all about personality!
Character design is static. It cannot move around to express itself. It cannot speak. You can give it speech balloons, but still it has no voice. Your character must express itself through gesture. Gesture, as in mime, involves the entire posture. In order to make a clear gesture, your drawing must have no confusing parts or ambiguities. Hence the importance of the body or silhouette. The choices you make in determining the angle of the character is seen from and how an action or attitude is depicted are called staging. Cartooning is a flat medium; you don't want your characters to look confusing or ambiguous on screen or paper, so you need to stage every action or attitude with maximum clarity.
Achieving clarity
Walk Disney told his animators to : "Work in silhouette so that everything can be seen clearly. Don't have a hand come over a face so that you can't see what's happening. Put it away from the face and make it clear." with thought, planning and experimentation, you should be able to draw any action or attitude so that it seems both natural and clear. If you take time to order your thoughts on paper, you will achieve your drawing goals with fewer mistakes and greater clarity. Slow down in order to speed up.
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