How to Draw Ashlee from “Good Cheese”
By Kelly | June 3, 2007
Here’s a quick look at how I approach drawing Ashlee from my webcomic Good Cheese.
1. Block out the head as a sphere, and figure out the center of weight by drawing a line down from the collar bone.
2. Roughly draw the proportions of the figure
3. Add details of the figure such as ears, tail, etc but still in a simple fashion. Notice that I’m using overlapping shapes for Ashlee’s breast, stomach, and hips to convey some sense of volume of form.
4. Using a mechanical pencil, I ‘ink’ over my light blue lines, finalizing the details.
This may look a bit weird, but you can use the head size as a measure to keep proportions consistent. Ashlee is roughly 5 heads tall. Of course, you can just use spheres instead of Ashlee’s whole head to figure out the proportions. 
Topics: Drawing tutorials | 23 Comments »
December 19th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Hey,….I was just wondering……could you post something that said what animal the GC characters are? I know some are kinda obvious but others aren’t. Pretty PLEEEEEZ…….P.S. I totally LOVE your work ^_^
November 30th, 2007 at 12:33 am
This really helps a lot. I love this website, and I read Good Cheese whenever I can! I would really love it if you could make a Mitch tutorial though, he’s my favorite character! ^^
September 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
this helps alot, especially for fleshing out my stick figure frames^-^
its just a shamet that if a guy made a webcomic like goodcheese (wich is awsome!) they’d be seen as some kind of weirdo :-(
ah well, i can’t do high school anyway(Igo to an all boys grammer school,butIhate single-sex schools)
August 30th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I love it! it helped a lot whit my drawings. could you do one like this for Jerome to? i would just love that! keep on the good work.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Ashlee is a dormouse. Dormice have round bodies, as you can find out by looking it up.
August 14th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
i may have just started reasing your comic, but good job. And i have been wondering why you draw ashlee pudgy looking.
July 1st, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Whilst searching the net i stumbled upon good cheese, the art work and storyline are amazing, you ftw
June 4th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Thanks for this tutorial. The technique “how many heads tall” part is a big help in getting my proportions right for my drawings. I also like how you showed the steps for the figure, I always had trouble getting a style down. Thanks a lot!
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I have find some erros:
thing = think (I know it is funny if you reading)
thist = this
Sorry!
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I’ve starded reading your comic and tutorials long time ago. Good cheese is wonderful, suprising and designed story*. I’m very like drawing and i’m have got a big experience on this.I have trying draw Aschlee in mine poses, but I havent got perpective and propotion for your characters but I thing this is not a big problem now. Thist tutorial hepls a lot**. Thanks!
* Im still waiting for next tutorial’s and comic chapters all the time.
** I’m not from England or USA and Im sorry If I had create some errors in my comment.
Thanks for all Kelly!