How to Cartoon Yourself
An indepth guide on how to create a cartoon of yourself.
Your reading this blog post so its safe to say you want to create a cartoon of yourself, a friend or even a celebrity. Before we begin first let us say THANK YOU! for choosing to read from the CartoonSelf blog! We hope to provide you with excellent advice and the best tips on how to create a cartoon version of yourself. There are a few essentials you will first need before we can begin.
The Essentials
First you will need a picture of yourself, friend, family member or celebrity.
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Second, select a medium at which to create your cartoon yourself. Choose between color pencils, paint, or a computer/ipad with design programs like photoshop, illustrator and flash.
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Ok so now you have an image of yourself and a way to create. What's next you might ask...
Establish Your Color Palate
This is very easy if you have a program like photoshop that allows you to select any color on your picture down to the pixels. Use the eye dropper tool in photoshop and select different shades/colors from your face, hair, eyes etc. If you want to create a full body caricature also pick colors from your clothes, shoes, accesories etc.
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Next step is...
Decide what you will be doing
If you want to be playing baseball, draw yourself hitting a home run, if you dream of directing a big movie, draw yourself in a directors chair on a big buget movie set. Be sure to pick something thats fun and exciting to you.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Creating!
Now its time to create your caricature. Start with drawing out the shapes of your head and body. Be sure to work from your picture or reflection.
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For the head begin adding in the details of your face, like nose, ears, eyes, eyebrows, mouth etc. An excellent tip is to play on your most distinguishable features. This will make your cartoon resemble you much more. For the body begin drawing in the details like lapels, ties, logos, wrinkles etc.
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The final step!
Add the color
Once you have it drawn out, begin adding in the color. Remember to work from the color palete you already set up. Take notice of the different colors and shades on your face. The more color and shades you use the more depth your cartoon portrait will have.
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We hope this tutorial was helpful in giving you tips and guidance on how to create your cartoon self. If you don't have time to create your own caricature we can simply create it for you!