Once you notice how many cartoon characters have four fingers, it‘s hard to ignore. The artistic choice originated with Disney and other early animation studios in the 1920s, and since then it ...

Cartoon characters are fun to draw because they are full of personality, and their features are often exaggerated. You don’t need to be a professional artist to draw them—just a pencil, paper, and ...

Updated on May 6, 2025, by Andrea Sandoval: Fast characters are a staple of most cartoons. Whether for humorous purposes, for the plot, or fighting, animators love to draw fast characters.

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The best anime characters to draw can inspire you to master character design. Whether you've been scribbling anime-style faces since you were a young'un like me, or you're only picking up a pencil ...

Doesn’t it look fun when you check out your Avatar on Snapchat and WhatsApp? What makes it more interesting is its detailed similarity to your appearance and personality making it look more life-like.

When cartoons were hand-drawn, this was a huge benefit, and so newer cartoon characters began wearing gloves too. Time-saving is also one reason why cartoon characters tend to have fewer fingers.

And so, back in 1950, I mailed a batch of cartoons to New York City, to United Features Syndicate, and they said they liked them, and so ever since I've been drawing little kids." ...

I wanted to draw something, I didn't know what it was, but it just seemed as if whenever I drew children, these were the cartoons that editors seemed to like the best.

Disney animator Austin Taylor gave On The Red Carpet a step-by-step lesson on how to draw "Mini Maui," the mischievous tattoo that keeps Dwayne Johnson's "Moana 2" character "Maui" in check.