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Drawing Cartoon Figures
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Some of the best cartoons never say a word. They convey everything you know through facial expressions and body language. Consider how much you can infer from a pose:
Every body - from a bird to a dog to a human - has a skeleton. But for cartoons, you don't need to know every bone, just the essential structure (because cartooning is all about the essentials). There are many ways to draw the basic structure - you can use cones and balls, stick-figure joints, or loose scribbles (also called "gesture drawings").
Like faces, bodies have different shapes, and they deform and shift according to emotion and actual motion, and the pull of gravity (unless they're in space, of course).
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