Q&A for How to Create Your Own Cartoon Character

It is recommended. Even if you have a great amount of experience, it is always good to look for ways on how the characters can be improved.

Physical features are a person's visible characteristics, like height, weight, hair color, facial shape and eye color.

Detail surely is important, but it is not your main priority, especially when you've just started drawing the character. What makes your character alive is mostly the dynamics. For example, when your character walks, his clothes will move around a bit. Adding lines on the side of the moving object or shading it will improve depth and dynamics.

Yes, even a strong character should have flaws and weaknesses to be more believable and relatable to the reader.

Pick the character you want, since a lot of cartoon characters have different traits. If it's want a funny one, then act goofy and funny, for example.

Try your hardest until you succeed. Don't give up and always stay motivated. Practice makes perfect!

Think of personality traits you like. For example, is your character loyal to their friends? Are they silly? Are they heroic? It's your character to do what you want with.

Betty belongs to an era so distant that many viewers will not even recognize the similarity. Make Lola quite different from Betty, however, so that no one can accuse you of plagiarism.

You don't need a computer! You can just draw your cartoon character on paper with a pencil, pen, crayon, colored pencil, etc.

Use basic, non-detailed designs. For example, one of my stylized/cartoon characters has a very simple design and basic colors, especially around the face. Try to limit the complexity of cartoon characters. For example, look at a character like SpongeBob. Pretty easy to draw and identify, right? Basic. Now, look at complicated characters like some of the Transformers in the Transformers' movies. Nobody could draw that from memory, and it is complicated. Now, you don't want a stick figure with two dots and a smile, but non-complex character designs, like Steven from Steven Universe, or basically any character from SpongeBob, are better than complex designs.

You can use any Sketching/Art program you prefer. Some good sketching apps are: Tayasui Sketches, Autodesk Sketchbook, or Adobe Illustrator. Almost all Adobe software is good to use––Illustrator, Photoshop, Photoshop. Although, Photoshop is mostly better than Illustrator for this purpose as it has more features.