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Characters Eric also has to figure out what all the characters should look like. Sometimes these ideas change as he goes along and he has to make sure the character ends up looking the same in all the drawings for the book.
Eric's Drawing Tips
Here's how Eric draws Zoom's whiskers: For Zoom, Eric made a little cat skeleton and covered it in Plasticine. He was able to bend it and see how Zoom would look in all kinds of poses. It also helped him to get the shadows right. Eric sometimes uses people as models to help him draw his characters. For Maria, he had a friend dress up in Maria's clothes and bend down, just like Maria does in the book. He took photographs to guide him when he was drawing the picture for this page of the book.
Eric keeps drawing the same scene over and over, Eric did lots of different drawings of Maria to see how she should look and how she would move in her clothes. Like the cartoonists at Disney, Eric makes drawings of his characters with lines behind them. This helps him to keep the characters the right size, no matter how large or small he draws them. When Zoom is standing up on his hind legs, he comes to about Maria's knees. It wouldn't make sense if Zoom suddenly grew to be as tall as Maria's waist in a picture.
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