CREATING A CARTOON

Here is my research into current cartoon designs. I used Behance.net to collect some contemporary modern pieces. I think all these design share a running theme. They are quite childlike.

Looking back to my research I wanted to create something which was simple but looked almost child-like. Below is my development for my final cartoon character.

Here are my initial sketches before creating my finalised cartoon. I played around with different eye shapes etc. I didnt want the cartoon to look too real because I wanted to keep a child-like aspect to it.

Here is the scan of my cartoon. I used fine liner so that the scanner would pick up all the small faint lines.

Here is my scan on screen. I opened it up in Photoshop so I could edit and crop it. I used levels to make the black lines more prominent.

My next step was opening it up in Illustrator. I live traced it and then expanded it. After this step I used a tool called Live Paint. This allows me to colour in my vector. Above is my finishing result.

The white background looked abit dull so I looked back to my research and realised most of the character designs had brightly coloured backgrounds. This is why is decided to do this.