/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>>4422435
Forget the books. Try wrapping lines, and uh, wrapping your mind around perspective. In an intuitive way, not the vanishing points and all that. Think about the volume. Koki (pictured) is great at conveying form on simple figures. It doesn't have to be a cartoon, perspective is everywhere. Look for perspective clues, like the stripes or creases on a dress. Think about how objects are oriented or tilted in space, and how this effects their perspective. A good exercise is to redline like here, but for the whole figure. Start with something simple like an apple. Apples are basically lumpy spheres, but there's more going on there than you might think.
Though fwiw, many cartoonists intentionally flatten for style. Pretty common in rubberhose. But if you want a sense of depth, you need to think in terms of the 3D shape, not just the graphic/2D one. Graphical considerations come afterward.