Thought Process

- Follow your “Basic Work Process Handout” for the overall process of doing this assignment.
- Think about the type of character that you want to design.
- Do some mental visualization exercises.
- Look for some reference materials to help you with the design style.
- Do some preliminary sketches to start off your process of searching out your design style.
- Once you have come up with the design that you like, draw the character in the neutral 3/4 pose.
- Use this pose as your base pose and use the flipping technique to generate the other expression poses.
- As you do each pose, go back over the list of principles to be sure you’re following each of them as they apply.
- Keep the drawings rough, don’t be in a rush to finish the drawings to their final appearance.- After you’ve done a few, spread them all out on the floor and compare them to the base design. Look for any discrepancies in the design. Check the spatial relationships, treat the drawings like you did the first assignment.
- Make any revisions that you feel are necessary to get the drawings “on model”.
- Double check them again. Make your final revisions.
- Finish the drawings in clean.

Common Errors


- I won’t go indepth here other than to say, everything that I’ve listed before and not doing the things listed in the Thought Process above.


Reading Assignment

Read pages 197 - 212 in Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation.
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