Drawing Cartoon Characters – A School Full of Characters!

Drawing Cartoon Characters By Paula Briggs

In this workshop we explored capturing facial expressions through cartoon sketches with children aged 6 to 10.

First of all we started with our warm-up exercise. Each child was given a small round mirror and they were asked to make a continuous line drawing of their eyes using a writing pen. Curiously beautiful drawings emerged.


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