People are where a set of drawings gets judged hardest. In her Config talk, Bonnie Kate Wolf points out that we spend all day looking at people, so a small mistake in a drawn person feels wrong even when nobody can say why, while a table drawn slightly differently goes unnoticed. That is a reason to build characters from simple shapes. A circle for the head, a rounded rectangle or a capsule for the body, rounded bars for arms and legs and circles for hands give you a person that a second designer can rebuild exactly. Spoon Graphics builds a whole cartoon yeti this way in the film below, from an ellipse, a few rectangles and small circles for the fingers and toes.
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