Dynamic Black and White Illustrations [Hardcover]

Leslie Cabarga (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0881081132 | ISBN-13: 978-0881081138 | Publication Date: June 1993

Dynamic Black and White Illustration is a collection of illustration art by over 150 of the world's greatest illustrators--in black and white. All methods of black and white or "line art" illustration are covered including woodcut, scratchboard, pen, brush, dry brush, litho crayon, and computer art.

The criteria for selection of art was that it be black and white--no halftone dots allowed--and that the work was bold. Tenniel, for example, with his scratchy though wonderful pen style, didn t make the cut. The work of this century s finest illustrators and cartoonists is used to demonstrate each technique. Franklin Booth, Rockwell Kent, John Held, Jr., Edward Penfield, Lester Beall, Lynd Ward, Lucien Bernhard, Virgil Finlay, Eric Gill, Albert Dorne, Roy Krenkel, Boris Artzbasheff, Herbert Stoops, Charles Dana Gibson, Will Bradley, Will Eisner, Daniel Pelavin, Elwood Smith, Art Spiegelman, and Steve Leialoha, are just a few of the artists whose work is shown in the book. Of course, I threw in my own stuff a few times but not so much as to make me seem too conceited. There is some great, rarely-seen and some never-seen art from private collections in this book. All of it is terrifically inspiring. It s also practically a How-To book of illustration styles perfect for the young cartoonist or art student.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Art Direction Book Co (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881081132
• ISBN-13: 978-0881081138
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,262,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For most of his life, Leslie Cabarga considered himself not so much a writer but as an illustrator and graphic designer. Yet his very first book, The Fleischer Story (a history of the Max Fleischer animation studio) was published when he was 19 years old, several years before he would become one of the most popular illustrators in New York. Leslie went on to write and/or edit over 40 books, ranging from clip art collections for Dover publications to the ever popular Logo, Font & Lettering Bible, the only manual showing how to create lettering from scratch in the digital age. But he also produced the channeled book, "Talks with Trees," which has been gaining popularity over the past 10 years. Leslie likes to take subjects (such as the Max Fleischer cartoons, and lettering and font creation) and produce the "last word" on each subject. As he says, "It's mostly just to get these topics out of my system so I can move on." And move on he has! As amazon reader reviews of his Lettering "Bible" attest, the humor throughout the instructional text is part of what makes this book so enjoyable. "So I decided to move away from design topics and go for the humor--along with a bit of forward-looking social commentary," Leslie says. The result is the recently-published "We Hold These Truths," the story of what happens when a Truth Bomb drops on the world and people everywhere are compelled to live their truths. The book is as profoundly compelling as it is amusing. Like the book "Trees," We Hold These Truths is a channeled book that Leslie first began "receiving" more than 15 years ago. The contrast between design and spirit channeling is not so far apart, for as Leslie says, "Artists are seekers of truth. We are always questioning ourselves--why should it be this way rather than that? Where is the truth in this statement? The best artists are often those who willingly subject themselves to the most unmerciful critiques of their own creations." And," he says, "my body of work in the graphics field shows that there's nothing airy-fairy about us channelers. Actually, I'm a very down-to-earth guy." Indeed, Leslie tells us he's got another dozen or so books in planning stages on subjects ranging from health and nutrition to human sexuality. Which brings up Leslie's latest book, "Topless Summer Love Girls; A Gentleman's Guide to Women, Relationships & Breasts." It is a book that looks seriously tat men's issues while at the same time satirizing men's obsessions.