You Can Draw Cartoons (Dover Art Instruction) [Paperback]

Lou Darvas (Author), Art Instruction (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Art Instruction | Publication Date: March 3, 2003

Beginning and experienced cartoonists will prize this user-friendly guide. Generously illustrated, it abounds in tips on techniques such as pen and brush handling, patterns, coloring, and attaining perspective. Drawing specifics include helpful hints on depicting people, animals, expressions, and clothing, how to indicate motion and movement, and the use of props.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Dover ed edition (March 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486426041
• ISBN-13: 978-0486426044
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #497,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Can you draw cartoons?, May 15, 2008

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This review is from: You Can Draw Cartoons (Dover Art Instruction) (Paperback)

This is a nice book but lacks detailed instructions on how to actually draw. Gives only very basic guidelines. What the book is mostly about is what to draw. Still a nice book though.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOU DARVAS-ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS CARTOONISTS, EVER!, May 31, 2003

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This review is from: You Can Draw Cartoons (Dover Art Instruction) (Paperback)

I OWN AN ORIGINAL COPY-HARDBACK, BUT MORE IMPORTANT, AS A YOUNG BOY IN THE EARLY 60'S, I SPENT MANY SUMMER DAYS SITTING NEXT TO LOU'S DRAWING TABLE, WATCHING HIM DRAW THE DAILY SPORTS CARTOONS, FOR THE NOW DEFUNCT SCRIPPS-HOWARD PUBLISHED CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER ON EAST 9TH STREET IN CLEVELAND, OHIO...I ONCE WROTE HIM A LETTER, ASKING IF I COULD HAVE A SMALL ORIGINAL CARTOON...I GOT JUST THAT, MANY TIMES OVER, AND WATCHED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE SPORTS CARTOONISTS EVER, ACTUALLY DRAW-TALK ABOUT SOME ART SEMINARS FOLKS-TALK ABOUT ONE GREAT MAN TO SPEND HIS TIME WITH A KID, WHO LOVED TO DRAW...THIS BOOK SHOWS MANY OF HIS WORKS, SOME PUBLISHED IN EITHER THE PRESS OR THE SPORTING NEWS FROM BOTH THE 40'S, AND MOSTLY THE 50'S...A BASIC TECHNIQUE ART BOOK-AN EXCELLENT GUIDE, FOR THE BUDDING SPORTS ILLUSTRATOR/ARTIST OR CARTOONIST-EVEN THAT SPORTS FAN OUT THERE-ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU, WHO RECALL SEEING HIS PUBLISHED SPORTS WORKS, GROWING UP...VERY HAPPY TO SEE THE BOOK HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED!! ...IF INTERSTED, IN MY VIEW, WILLARD MULLIN, LOU DARVAS, MURRAY OLDERMAN, BRUCE STARK AND KARL HUBENTHAL WERE THE TOP FIVE BEST NEWSPAPER SPORT CARTOONISTS, EVER-IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OF IMPORTANCE!!...PS- ROBERT RIGER WASN'T A NEWSPAPER SPORTS CARTOONIST, MERELY A SUPER FANTASTIC SPORTS ILLUSTRATOR, FOLKS..LOVED HIS WORKS AS WELL!! SMILE