They’re pencils! Who better, then, than this fiction-M.F.A.-holding artist to offer a tutorial on drawing hilarious cartoons about characters from literature and about the literarily minded.

Drawing cartoon characters is a fun way to express creativity. Artists of all skill levels can enjoy coming up with unique character ideas. With a bit of imagination, anyone can create their own ...

You might think that all cartoons come from thoughts, and you might not be wrong. Jason Adam Katzenstein, however, specializes in drawing certain ... at your midnight self. I’m lucky enough ...

I bet I could slip it into a first-year art student’s reject pile without much notice. Next, let Jason teach you how to draw someone’s portrait, and how to draw a cartoon.

Learn how to draw happy and sad cartoon faces with this video. From happy, to sad, we can make lots of different faces, depending on how we feel. Let’s draw some. First, try holding your pencil ...

Or you could even draw yourself next to it.” Have fun with your drawing. The tips above will help it to be recognised as T. rex, but you don’t have to make an exact copy of Zach’s cartoon. It’s ...

And I feel like that is magic.” Don’t get discouraged and go easy on yourself. “If you can sign your name, you can draw,” said Helen Birch, an author of instructional art books ...

Then he taught you how to draw faces. In the new video above, he shows how he turns all these principles into caricatures for his cartoons. Jason shows how to distill facial features into cartoons ...