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Toon Art: The Graphic Art of Digital Cartooning Paperback – July 1, 2003

by Steven Withrow (Author)

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The author explains the process, methods, and tools for digital cartooning and explains its popularity around the world, tracing the evolution of this cutting-edge art from and providing helpful information, advice, and guidance for would-be digital cartoonists.

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192 pages
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English
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Watson-Guptill
Publication date

July 1, 2003
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9.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches
ISBN-10

0823053784
ISBN-13

978-0823053780
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Adult/High School--A superb, comprehensive guide to the realm of Web-based cartoons, comics, and animation. The brief history of cartooning begins 35,000 years ago with the cave art at Lescaux and traces a time line to today's developments. The book takes readers on a creative trip from initial sketches to posting a finished product on the Web and covers the basic processes of creating a cartoon, choosing a format, developing a character, and writing a story line. Withrow discusses sketching backgrounds, composition, coloring of characters, lettering, editing, and posting the work. All along the way, readers find invaluable suggestions and comments from leading digital cartoonists. The book is also visually rich with photographs of cartoons and animated characters, and illustrations on how to produce digital animation. This is a satisfying read for anyone interested in state-of-the-art animation, and it is sure to be popular with young adults.--John Kiefman, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Watson-Guptill (July 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0823053784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0823053780
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 0.5 x 10 inches

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Charley Parker

An eye-candy treat of the best in digital toons and comics!

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2004

This is a suberb overview of the current state of digital cartooning. It showcases many of the top digital cartoonists and comics artists working today. It features beautiful full-color spreads of digital art, reproduced large (thank you very much), and details on the background and approach of each featured artist.

The book also includes many useful tips and techniques for digital cartoonists, although its real strength is as a showcase of some of the best digital cartooning and comics art out there. A beautiful book.

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Spidercake

Avoid!

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2012

It says it was published in 2003, but it feels like it came from the 90s. Everything in this book feels amateur and rushed (some images even have the Mac's cursor left on them!). A lot of the images are pixelated and blurry too. I have no idea what that 5 star review before me was on about when they said "showcases many of the top digital cartoonists and comics artists working today", because it would be more accurate to say it showcases many of the artists who are doing so poorly that they would accept to be published in any sort of book.

This book is basically a guide to everything an artist should avoid, and that is probably the only good use for it.

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Good ideas book but not a technical depth type of book...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2008

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This book bursts with examples from around the world of artists using the standard programs like Photoshop (I think most used this as at least one tool in their armoury)for cartoon strip production. If you have working knowledge of Photoshop/illustrator or any other industry accepted software and are looking for plenty of style examples to provide some inspiration, this will definitely help. If maybe you're an artist looking to play around with cartoon style illustration, once again it will be a good ideas source book. The book has about 10 double page spreads at the front going through creative processes needed such as ' creating characters, storyline, sketches, inking, typography etc. HOWEVER... please note...IF you're looking for a blow-by-blow book giving detailled examples of how work is moved through the various processes then this is not what the book is really about. This is not a criticism, just a pointer to what you get. I managed to get this for a couple of quid as it is a 2003 book (and it's just 2008). I've just also bought 'Creative Photoshop' by Derek Lea which is bang on the money for getting all manner of slick and quirky illustration style art from photoshop, which may suit you more? All in all, for a few quid definitely worth getting, but this is a showcase of talents more than and a general guide to the whole process of getting a cartoon strip together. It's NOT a hand-holding walk through specific programs or processes if that's what your after. All in all ? Absolutely worth a punt for the price a pint.

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