Drawing a Bright and Happy Cartoon Sun doc

Step 3 - Guide Points Get out your compass and set it up so that you will draw a larger circle - in the step 3 picture this is the outer layer of red dots.. After you have done that, mak

Drawing a Bright and

Happy Cartoon Sun

Drawing a cartoon sun is one of the easiest things to draw At least, that's what I imagine you must be thinking When you look up into the sky at the real sun (don't look at it too long) it's not much more than a big ball of blinding light So to draw a cartoon version of the sun you would expect it to also be something simple, something bright and you're totally right Anyone can draw a circle though, so you will learn how to draw curves and make this sun shine brightly

Step 1 - A Big Ball of Light

Grab a compass from your geometry drawing kit, a cup, a cd, a coin, a bowl - any circular drawing object that you can find You'll start this cartoon sun drawing lesson off by making a circle Use whatever object you found and trace it It's important that your circle be nearly perfect because we will use a compass later to help make the spikes coming out from the sun's face

Step 2 - Detailing the Face

This is another easy step The mouth is a simple curve with two curves

on the end of it The eyes and eyebrows are also curves Notice that the mouth is drawn at a slight angle This helps make the face a little more interesting than if everything was symmetrical from the left side to the right Feel free to experiment at this step and make a face that you feel shows the personality of your cartoon sun

Step 3 - Guide Points

Get out your compass and set it up so that you will draw a larger circle

- in the step 3 picture this is the outer layer of red dots Instead of

drawing a full circle you only want to place some small dots along the path of your compass circle These will be guides that we will use in the next step Try use an equal distance between the points After you have done that, make your compass smaller and create another layer of dots that is closer to the cartoon sun face These marks should not touch the face and be spaced so that you add a dot between each of the marks

on the larger guide line These marks will be used to define the low point of the curves in the next step If you are confused take a look at the step 4 image and see how these marks will be used

Step 4 - Adding Curves

Using your guide lines from step 3 it's time to add some curves to the cartoon sun and start to let it shine Start at one of the outer layer of dots and draw a curve from outer point, down to inner point and then back up to an outer point If you placed the points correctly in step 3 this should be easy Continue around the entire sun and You will have the first layer of shiny curves The cartoon sun should really start to take shape now

Step 5 - Another Row of Curves

This is an optional step, so if you are happy with your drawing after step 4 you can consider it done Follow steps 3 and 4 again, but this time when you make your inner and outer guide dots make your

compass slightly larger than before Also, adjust the position of the dots

so that this second layer's curves will be drawing in the middle of the first layer of shiny details Take care to draw lightly and make sure not

to draw over top of your work from step 4 This row of curves should looks like it is behind the first row

That's it - quick and painless cartoon sun drawing! The take away

lesson here is that when you want to draw curves it's good to set

yourself up with guide points Draw your guides first, and then draw your curve and make it pass through the guide points This is the best way to draw curves that look great