1. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Find a cartoon from a newspaper, magazine, or computer. Cut around the edges of your cartoon so the edges are straight. Use a ruler to create a boarder if it doesn’t have one.

2. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings After you cut out the cartoon : Glue your cartoon to a white sheet of paper – in one of the corners, but not right against edge. like this…

3. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Use a ruler to measure the length and width of your cartoon in centimeters and write it on your paper – near your cartoon. Yours may not be 5cm – this is just an example. 5cm

4. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Now…Time to draw the grid! On the paper ( not on the cartoon ), Make one centimeter marks on opposite sides 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm Start on the left and go towards the right across the top and bottom. Be careful measuring – your grid will turn out better. The last block may be smaller than one centimeter.

5. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Now…Time to draw the grid! Connect the marks. 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm It is okay if all your squares aren’t exactly the same size but try to get them as close as possible.

6. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Time to blow up your cartoon. The scale factor is 4. You are making your cartoon 4 times as large. What do you do? 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm 1cm Multiply everything by four!

7. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings You need to create a grid that is four times as large as your original. My original is 5cm by 5cm. I’m choosing 1cm to 4cm, so my new grid is 20cm to 20cm. Now mark off 4cm marks! Left to right and top to bottom.

8. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Now you can draw! You do not have to know how to draw to do this. The grid helps you with spatial relationships… Draw the new picture one square at a time. Notice spatial relationships here and it will look exactly like original.

9. On A Side Note: Cartoon Drawings Finished Product