Animate cartoons with the flip of a page.
Making cartoon books is a fun and easy way to explore your artistic side by creating small moving scenes using "flip" or "flick" animation. No special equipment is required. A series of drawings, each one slightly different than the next, are made on the pages of a store-bought or homemade pad of paper. When the pages are turned rapidly, the drawings look like one moving picture. Cartoon book projects can provide hours of enjoyment for the entire family.
Instructions
1. Decide what you want to draw. Choose anything you like. Keep your cartoon fairly simple.
2. Go to the last page in the notepad. Sketch your first image on the bottom half of the front of the page.
3. Turn the page before and lay it atop your sketch. Trace the parts of your first sketch that don't move onto the front of the new page. Sketch all other lines in your drawing moved over slightly in the direction that you wish to go.
4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until you reach the end of your sketched cartoon. Flip through the book (from back to front) to see that the animation moves the way you like. Make any adjustments desired.
5. Clean up your sketches and darken the lines. Work from the first drawing in your cartoon to the last. Use pencil or pen.
6. Flip through your finished cartoon book.
