![]() ![]() Please share your doodles when you are done. Play around with variety with your pencils! I can make my pencial softer, I can use harder lines, I can make a gradient, I can blend, I can outline, I can colour a solid area. This is why I use pencil crayons to colour because I can add variety. She’s a simple shape in her body so I think she can handle the added colour and notice I’m not colouring her realistically. I do this to give myself a bit more variety for her. Here I used four colours often I only use three. Step 4 – Let’s Colour your Cartoon Buzzing Bee Note how I use variety of size in particular. I exaggerate the feeling that she is a happy buzzing worker bee. With my pen, I continue to outline the rest of my character. I love the way she’s looking already in this class. I make them extra big and add more detail and emphasis like eyelashes. This is going to give my bee her character. Step 2 – Capture your cartoon’s expression This is my chance to play around and see how I can make this bee interesting. Next I lightly sketch in the other features, in this case lots more circles, and note the variety of size and placement. This is both thinking time and time for me to see what is going to feel the most like the orientation for my cartoon bee. But I don’t just draw one circle and leave it at that I draw lots. I begin with my biggest shape that is going to create my bee. You will wind up with a different character than me and make different decisions along the way. I use variety of shape, size, detail, colour, line type… get creative with it! What I want you to experience is the process I go through and how I add variety, even in this simple example. This video shows you how I draw this one buzzing bee cartoon. I try to look at ways of adding variety on multiple levels from the individual cartoon character to the fun elements in my work to the overall composition of the drawing. What do I mean by that? Well in this example, a cartoon bee can be a pretty basic character to draw and it’s easy to fall into a pattern and just repeat the same character throughout the drawing. How can I think more Creatively? Let’s focus on VARIETYīefore you start the video, I recommend you keep in mind the following: there are all kinds of creative ways to add variety to a drawing. But before you begin….get your creative thinking cap on… Good question! Head on over to my YouTube channel and you can watch the tutorial where I step you through How to Draw a Cartoon Buzzing Bee from the online art classes with the kids. 4 Colours (My favourite are Faber-Castell polychromes or Prismacolor but whatever you have will do just fine).Eraser or rubber (it just for erasing AFTER you have inked).Black marker or fine-liner (I’m using a Uni Super Ink fine marker here).Pencil (I use my friend the 4B Faber-Castell Jumbo here).The children and I brainstormed some great features to add to our bee hives and here’s one of my favourite cartoon characters who emerged… The bees were particularly fun to draw because they are simple approachable shapes to doodle, but have just enough artistic elements to play around with. There’s always a new topic to doodle on – something that will not only improve our drawing abilities, challenge us to come up with new and creative ways of solving problems. ![]() My friend Chula from Colouring Club for adults is a bee researcher (I didn’t know there was such a thing but now it makes sense!) and she gave us all a bit of an education on Sunday evening as we coloured. I thought I’d share how I did one character, so if you missed our online cartoon art class, you can have a go now. I liked drawing the worker bees with big expressive eyes and funny multi-colour bodies. ![]()
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