1 minute character drawing

Draw Tip Tuesday: How to Create 1-Minute Characters

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If you love cartoon or children’s book characters and you want to create some of yourself and the people you know, Koosje Koene, Sketchbook Skool’s co-founder, will show you how to draw them—fast!—in this week’s Draw Tip Tuesday.

Why one minute? Drawing quickly keeps you from thinking. Your inner critic won’t get in the way of your imagination, and your line will be nice and loose.

With a few simple materials, you can create fun characters, and even start making stories about your own life. That’s the subject of the klass Marloes De Vries teaches in our kourse. This exercise is a perfect warm-up for that. Then, enroll in How to draw without talent, and you can learn how to take those characters and make them into a series of drawings, maybe even a book. Have fun!

Check out this sketch from our community. Art by Andrea & Kari

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