How to Draw Cartoons
New York City cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein taught you how to draw what you see . Then he taught you how to paint faces . In the new video above, he shows how he turns all of these principles into caricatures for his cartoons.
Jason shows you how to transform facial features into cartoons and cartoons. It’s still about taking a close look at real life – as we mean in the video, it’s like Jason doing all the sketches he would do with a more traditional portrait, but doing it in his mind.
But drawing is also the language of visual shorthand. Smelly lines, or even just dots instead of eyes, are ways to transform reality into something friendlier or more funny. But they work best when you know the nuances of what each symbol means.
One way to learn these nuances is to study the masters. Behind the scenes, Jason named some of his cartoon characters:
- Cartoonist Keith Beaton : “She made me laugh with five lines.”
- New York-based minimalist cartoonist Saul Steinberg
- Understanding comics by Scott McCloud, the most famous contemporary analysis of art forms in cartoons and comics.
- Liana Fink, a cartoonist from New York : “There is so much love in the lines.”
This is the last of our videos with Jason! I had a great time learning how to draw and you will learn too if you follow Jason’s three principles:
- Pay close attention to what you are drawing.
- Don’t be afraid to draw the line.
- Draw often.