not started yet
This is the plan for this module as it stands. It gets revisited once it’s reached — kept if it
still fits, changed or swapped out if something better turns up along the way.
Etherington Brothers, “How to THINK When You Draw” — 300+ free tutorials,
including “How to draw CHARACTERS (3-Shapes)” and “(Flipped-Shapes).” The richest free
cartoonist library on the web, made by two working comic artists (Robin & Lorenzo Etherington,
The Phoenix comic).
Toniko Pantoja (YouTube) — story/animation artist (How to Train Your
Dragon 3, Trolls, Croods 2); excellent free videos on appealing shape language.
Sycra (YouTube) — “iterative drawing” and shape-design; great for
developing your own voice through variation rather than copying.
Study your north stars directly. Pick the cartoons and comics you
love — whatever made you want to draw — and copy frames from them. Break each character
into its underlying simple shapes (a rounded box, a fluid blob, a bean) to see how they’re built.
A real, repeatable design drill — not a one-off
The Etherington Brothers’ 3-Shape Characters
method is built to be run over and over, not done once: split a body into three sections, then
randomly pick each section’s height (short/medium/tall) and width (narrow/medium/wide). Every
combination produces a different, usable silhouette. Run it weekly with a fresh random combination
— it’s how the Etheringtons themselves teach building a personal library of shapes fast.
exercises
Run the 3-Shape drill weekly, then draw an expression sheet (and eventually a full turnaround model
sheet) for whichever result you liked best that week — exactly where your module 02–03 construction
work pays off.
Steps
Browse the Etherington Brothers’ character-shape tutorialsLesson
Run the 3-Shape design drill (repeat weekly with a new random combination)Lesson
Draw an expression sheet for your favorite result each week
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