Draw With Jazza - Creating Characters: Fun and Easy Guide to Drawing Cartoons and Comics

Josiah Brooks

Oct 2016 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Imagine, Design and Draw Your Own Characters!

Draw With Jazza YouTube star Josiah Brooks breaks down an easy-to-follow method that will help you to invent and draw original characters time and time again. Whether sci-fi or steampunk, comic book heroines or tattooed action heroes, animal familiars or alien races, you will discover the limitless possibilities of creating your very own characters for comic books, cartoons, video games and more!

No matter what your skill level, you can draw from concept to finished art with confidence. Jazza shows you how as he walks you through The Design Process!


   • Discover. Learn techniques just like the pros use for developing characters--their backstory, personality and physicality; decide your drawing style; and explore and organize your inspiration.
   • Design. Use brainstorm sketching to refine your character's persona. Use simplified lines and shapes to draw men and women, practice poses and play with body shapes, sizes, ages and outfits.
   • Develop. Refine your best ideas by choosing features, color schemes, settings and context to reflect your end goal.
   • Deliver. Finish your concept art with character turnarounds, expression sheets, pose variations and more to create a complete picture of your characters and their world.

Ratings and reviews

This book was published in 2016 and I finally received it this year as a paperback copy. I have always had a very hard time drawing people, as realistic people and as cartoons characters. The book has instructions that's easy to understand on how to draw people and the illustrations make it even easier to understand what you're drawing. I can't wait to combine his book and his app (Jazza's Arty Games) to see what I can create after I practice more and get better. Jazza is an amazing artist and author and even his countless videos have helped me better my art skills and helped me learn to draw things I never thought I could. He is an inspiration to all. Thank you, Jazza!

Very informative and interesting book. I have never payed for an ebook or an app but after getting back in to drawing I have bought both this book and jezzas app too both easily worth the money

Jazza as usual knocks it out of here!!! Excellent information to draw your own fully formed characters.

About the author

Josiah "Jazza" Brooks is an artist and animator best known for the educational and entertainment content on his YouTube channel Draw with Jazza. In 2012, Josiah created his channel to share his self-taught techniques for character design, illustration and animation, and the channel grew rapidly in popularity. As his community grew, he began producing stand-alone educational content and artist resources for his website, www.jazzastudios.com.