Everybody loves cartoons, but not everybody realizes that a good cartoonist needs special training. This attractive, heavily illustrated, easy-to-follow volume is a self-teaching course for beginning cartoonists. At the heart of the book is instruction on drawing faces and figures that come to life--facial expressions that cover the full range of emotions, gestures that dramatize body language, clothing that indicates social and professional status, face and body shapes that indicate age, and much more. Cats, dogs, and other animals are shown too, with tips on making them appear either comically human-like or naturalistic. Aspiring cartoonists are introduced to the equipment and materials they'll need for both color and black-and-white cartooning, and are provided with research and reference sources, including many on the World Wide Web. The author also presents background information on cartooning art, and discusses the trends in comic strip art, advertising art, and political cartooning. In addition to instruction, budding artists will find advice on getting their work into print and information on career opportunities. More than 300 lively, colorful, and instructive illustrations.
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"Illustrated, easy-to-follow, self-teaching course for beginning cartoonists to help make them take the all-important steps to becoming a commercial artist.” -- Betty Garton Ulrich,Writers’ Journal , November/December 2001
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Steve Edgell has more than 20 years' experience as an illustrator, designer, and editor. After lecturing at the London Cartoon Centre and at St. Martin's College of Art and Design, he now writes independently on comics and cartooning.
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Good Stuff,
By Sonic Reducer (Belmont, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Cartooning Course (Paperback)
Plenty of books on cartooning are suffering from the same disorder, if you will - cookie-cutter-ism (Hello, Mr. Hart).
This book is a bit different - it won't teach you absolutely anything (hardly any book can), but its still very useful. It contain plenty of rules and tips on how to break them, as well as ideas on computer equipment, how to draw hands, feet, faces etc. etc. All in all, very good resource on cartooning, way better than many other similar titles.
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