KIDS MAKE COMICS#1: Simple Shapes make Super Characters!

Hi I'm Dave McDonald! Welcome to Kids Make Comics! Simple shapes makes super characters. That's right! In comics we can bring anything to life and that's a great thing Any simple shape we can draw and turn it into character. For some reason I like to bring food items to life. I like food a lot! So for example go ahead and grab you pencils and some paper let's draw an oval shape together
An oval shape, let's bring this to life by adding some eyeballs. Those eyeballs are going to be oval shaped here on my page they could be circles or whatever you want. Inside of those eyeball shapes I'm going to give my characters some pupils so we' know what directions he's looking in
Now their simple shape, curve line for a smile. I could even add a square for a funny tooth if I want ANd then I'm not going to take the time to put arms and legs on my character but I am going to draw a line across the middle and create a pair of pants with fancy stripes, alright
Now this only took us a minute to draw but I could tell a story in comics with this character. Couldn't I? SUre In fact because he is an egg-shaped character I like to call him my little Eggsplorer And yes I like Bad Puns and Wordplay get used to that so this is my little Eggsplorer I could send him out a big Eggventure couldn't I? Sure! That'll be Eggciting, woudn't it? ALright Stop, stop
ALright so this is my character I have a little life to my character make it a little bit more dynamic on the page by adding a shadow beneath the character so now he might be wiggling or dancing or jumping or moving on the floor. Some motion lines on either side just to put him in motion. Okay again so a simple shape became a super character. We could send this guy on a little adventure story
Whenever I look on simple shapes I always try to imagine what could that become as a character Here are some other explorer type character that you might enjoy. Let's take a look here. Sony Side Up, maybe she's a news reporter. But look at this some historical eggsplorer type characters, Albert Eggstein, George Washeggton, Eggraham Lincoln, Neil Eggstrong, Rose Eggparks, Thomas Eggison and Crack Beard the Pirate Lots of fun you can have to simple shape. You can turn yourself into ann Eggsplorer character. Go ahead and try that
But again anytime I see a simple shape, I try to imagine what could that become as a character So for example, a circle shape could easily become "The Masked Meatball" Oay there's a masked meatball. And let's take a look to another simple shape, a triangle. "Pizza Boy!" I told you I like food. All these food items can come to life. There's pizza boy. How about a square. A square, "Toasty Tom" and his friend "Patty Butter". Alright, there they are and one final before you get sick of me wathcing all these food puns, there's a rectangle that becomes "Farmer Corn Dog", how about that just round off the corners and create a farmer
ALright so once again simple shapes makes super characters you can have a lot of fun. Why you can't get started right now