From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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- Now I'm going to show you a very useful trick and it's a very simple one and this will enable you to create a greater illusion of depth and dimentionality and naturalism. So as you can see we've pretty much closed off the jawline here, it's a single continuous line. But what if you want it to look a little more round, a little more realistic? So there's a simple trick of simply opening up that line. So I'm just going to erase that black line just a little bit so we give the impression that it's just blending seamlessly into the neck. And depending on how far you want to cut back that line you've now created the illusion of a flow. And this creates the idea that there's almost a lighting effect that's taken out the line. It's a much greater level of naturalism. And if you want to flatten, the opposite is true, if you want your design to look flat then close off the area. Here's another example of where this might occur on a hand. So I'm just going to go in and give this a little more…

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