Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
First Sketches
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: First Sketches
Overview
“Here I'll show you how to create characters based on the concept you came up with. We're going to take them one by one and begin to design them.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: First Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World. Build your own cartoon narrative filled with endearing characters using a combination of analogue and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“First Sketches In our last lesson we learned all about the equipment that we need, we talked about concepts, we talked about a mood board, all that fun stuff as we get prepared to actually start creating our characters on paper. This will be fun. This is where I get excited. If I get too insane, turn the volume down, but I'm really excited to get started here. Let's look at the materials. I have some pencils that I really love working with. I have my awesome pens and a sketch pad. Old school sketch pad with paper, that means I can't tap and make things go away. Whatever I put in this paper ...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
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Character Design, Comic, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Butch Hartman
A course by Butch Hartman
Butch Hartman is an award-winning cartoon artist from the United States. He has been a fan of cartoons, movies, and comic books since he was a child and grew up creating stories and shooting his own movies. He later went on to study at the art school founded by Walt Disney, California Institute of Arts. After graduating, he began his career in the television animation industry, working on the 1986 version of My Little Pony.
Since then, Butch has gone on to work for studios like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network on iconic cartoons including, Tom and Jerry Kids, Droopy Master Detective, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and more. His work has received multiple Emmy Awards and he himself has been nominated for several. Butch also created his own children’s app, The Noog Network, and has written and produced live action films, including one for his famous animated show, The Fairly OddParents. He has also grown an impressive social media following with over 800,000 subscribers on YouTube and 1.7 million followers on TikTok, and he hosts his own podcast, Speech Bubble.
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