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Sure you can. But what is your goal? do you want to learn how to observe, rough out, and draw a character, or do you just want to trace something to hang on your refrigerator? It's completely up to you.

@ Great point!

You just made mu day, Payton. I'm so glad to hear that. Hope it helps and keep drawing my friend!

Wait, what about Max?

@ He did not have permission to look polite to Max.

yes, it does make it challenging, Doodlethis. it really helps to use a simple standing reference to use as a guide, figuring out how many heads high the character is. Then start to do simple scribbly thumbnail drawings to begin to get a feel for what that character looks like bent at the waist, or stretching. You don't need to add detail because its not the goal here. The goal is to get a feel of that core form. All those details come later.

that's very kind of you to say, Robert. Really hope it helps!

You are welcome Level-Up Cartooning/Rich. They dio help, believe me. Now I have a question to ask, if you are not in liberty to talk about it, I understand. And that is, are you going to write a book on how to draw cartoons or just how to draw?

Thanks, Robert. Love the trivia in all these stories. To me its what brings it all alive.

You're welcome Level-Up Cartooning/Rich. The trivia also gives understanding on what went into the making of these great stories.

I totally agree, Robert. I need to watch the Halloween grinch special they did. Have never watched it, or if I did, I don't remember it.

From I what I saw, Halloween on Grinch Night looks pretty good, and is considered an underrated halloween special.

I personally would say to examine how to draw the nose. Either structurally and in a realistic way first before stylization, or if you already kind of know how you draw your noses, just find lots of references at different angles. Start by drawing just the nose and then try connecting it to nearby features like eyes/ mouths. That's what I do, anyhow.

You are so intuitive, Dapperman! Both approaches have merit. In other words, use both. There is no one way that is better, but this I know, in the end, it often takes constant fearless repetition. Many don't have the stomach to make mistakes. Thirty years of work in illustration has taught me its all about making mistakes. For a book I wrote and illustrated, I once drew a character for two months straight, literally over a thousand times until I finally one day got it right. I did some talks about that experience where I showed hundreds of drawings and the audience agreed with me that it looks like the workings of a mad man....guess what, thats what it takes. I guarantee Picasso, Van Gough and every other great went through that process. I always have lived by the words of Logan Pearsal Smith: "The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves." Keep me posted. Hope it helps

Same! really clean and well drawn!

You're very welcome! Hope it helped

Wow, so happy to hear that, Jody! Keep drawing my friend!!!

You're very welcome, Robert. Hope they helped. Hard to see on a little short. I've got to try to do a live in the new year. Haven't quite figured out the technology quite yet, but I"m determined to do so.

You are welcome Rich. Your tips help out alot, no matter how long or short they are.

It's on a list. Remember that list is long. I will get to it at some point, thank you!

@@LevelUpCartooning That it had been nothing.

Interesting...and yet rotoscoping is considered animation. Huh.

Thank you, Robert. It was very nice. A quiet one, but really nice. Hope you had a nice one as well. Amazing how it flies by and suddenly is in the rearview mirror!

You are welcome Rich. I did thank you. It definitely flew by. 😀

If you're talking about the animated versions, I kind of like them all for different reasons, including the Mickey version. Such great animation. I love the Mr. Magoo version as it takes me back to my childhood. And the 1971 version-not even sure who did it-is actually really good. And if you mean all versions, I love the older black and white versions, like the 1938 adaptation. What about you?

My favorite version is, if we are talking animation. It would be both Mickey's Christmas Carol and the Looney Tunes one. As for live action, like you the black and white version, the musical ( that song "Thank you very Much " always gets stuck in my head 😀 ), Scrooged; and the one staring Sir. Patrick Stewart.

@@robertcarey45 My wife and I were lucky enough to see the live play version performed at Ford's Theater in DC many years ago right after it had reopened after being restored. An incredible experience seeing it in that historic theater.

That is cool. I am definitely going to have to look up Ford's Theatre.👍

@@robertcarey45 It's an amazing place to visit. Looks identical to the night Lincoln was shot. You can tour the building and see exactly where history was changed forever. Incredibly powerful. And to sit in the theater and look up at Lincoln's box is mind blowing.

Yes-He's a perfect Scrooge!

You are so welcome, Yousif! I hope you got something out of the video.

I'm putting it on my list of to dos...I actually have never drawn any character from this one. Thank you for the suggestion.

Thank you so much, Robert! And a very Happy and safe Thanksgiving to you and yours as well! Hard to believe how fast we're racing to the end of the year! Oh well. And I will be posting this weekend!

You are welcome Rich. And thank you we will. The year has definitely gone fast. Also, I look forward to see what drawing lesson you upload this weekend. 🙂👍

Hahahahah...no I"m not AI. Why? Do I look like I'm not real? hahahah

@@LevelUpCartooning hahahaha that's a compliment nowadays, when people think you're so perfect that you have to be AI 🤣

So much of drawing comes from really observing. And it takes practice to find ways to test whether you are drawing what you see, or what you think you see...and there is a difference. Love mechanical pencils if, for no other reason, they train you to draw lightly as that lead will often break when applying too much pressure.

hahahahahaha

A stiff pose doesn't have much going on, there's not an interesting pose and it's like you stood completely still in a very basic stand

When a pose isn't stiff it can show a lot of personality too

This is just what I understand as an artist btw

@@SIGNAL_OBSCURED ty :)

It's movement. You can see movement in the shapes even though they're still. x

Thank you, Robert! I have not seen that one, though I should watch it. I vaguely remember another animated version that I took my daughter to see back in the 90's-I believed dubbed in English...which was probably more true to the original story but the animation was terrible compared to the Disney masterpiece. If I don't get a chance, wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry Rich, I had delete the original comment because I noticed some error in my spelling.Anyway, you are very welcome Rich. The Del Toro version came out I believe in 2022 or 2023. And, thank you Rich. I also wish you and yours a happy & safe Thanksgiving. ❤️🙂🙏🦃

@@robertcarey45 I"m definitely going to have to watch that version. A very interesting look to it.

It is pretty good. It is in stop motion animation too

@@robertcarey45 I marvel at movies done using stop motion. The amount of work that goes into that is mind boggling.

must have a very controlled grip without being too hard on it or the pencil is just softer

@@theavootar Such a great question. It's probably one of the hardest things to learn. I will say it helps to always start light and stay light till that last step, and even then, its okay to draw the final line light and if necessary, go over it with several more light passes. I also like using the Faber Castelle Pitt Oil pencils as they don't smear like some regular pencils. Trouble is, they stopped making them. I'm trying to find a new favorite pencil.

My pencil changes thickness as it turns so it seems like I cannot make those lines you do

​@@LevelUpCartooning such a mind blowing revelation because for all my art journey I was shown that people only make the final line work with ink

@@theavootar YOu can make the final line in whatever works for you, whether it's pencil, pen and ink, brush and ink, or other medium.

Thank you, Robert.

You are welcome Rich. 🙏

Fantastic! And you are absolutely right! Drawing is all about experimenting and if tracing and how to drawing videos gets you to pick up the pencil in the first place, that's all that matters. Keep drawing!!!

YES! Exactly right. As much as it is a drawing technique, it's also a way of thinking as you draw it.

thank you very much. Hope you found it helpful.

thank you very much, Robert. I loved trying this one. Had never drawn either before.

You are welcome Rich. I did not know that.

So happy to hear that, Mike! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

It's Mickey Mouse,😊

It's Mickey Mouse😊

It's a fun little drawing.

It is a great drawing at that.

You're very welcome, ZebPawer. I promise to do more. YES! I've been an illustrator for 30+ years and I still have to practice hands. It's because there are infinite ways of posing them...and they hold stuff too! Just keep at it. Slowly it starts to get easier.

That's awesome! I promise, if you try it a second time it would be even better. It's too much pressure to feel it has to be perfect. Especially if you've never drawn that before. Think how many thousands of times the animators drew him as well as all the other characters. THAT is how you get good.

Very much like those two shows

Yes, Disney definitely toned down the original story line. Probably for the best. Many of those original fairy tails were much more violent and downright scary compared to the 21st century versions.

The reason why The Brother's Grimm's fairy tales were so dark, is because they were originally written intended for adults. In fact, did you know Hans Christian Anderson's story The Little Mermaid is way darker than the Disney version?

Thank you, Candyman! So glad you liked them. I hope they help!

Fantastic, Candyman! I agree, I love the rubber hose style!

Yes. I haven't seen it but have been told.