Creative Cartooning


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DIVWith its combination of valuable tips, techniques, and engaging step-by-step lessons, Creative Cartooning is the perfect resource for learning to draw polished, professional-looking cartoons./div




The Complete Book of Cartooning


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Now, whether you've had any formal training or not, this book offers you step-by-step directions on how to do all types of cartoons and caricatures.




The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning


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Part animation guide, part Flash manual, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning provides a practical primer on classic, hand-drawn 2D screen animation as well as an introduction to using Flash for creating your own cartoons. Section I discusses the terms and techniques of hand-drawn animation, character design, and storyboards, while Section II covers scanning, digitizing your artwork into Flash, and setting up scenes. Topics include how to animate a walk cycle; recording and editing dialogue, sound effects, and music; how to use recyclable symbols to make the animation process more efficient; preparing your work for video or web download.




Action! Cartooning


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Written and illustrated by a former Marvel Comics' artist with brilliant hand-done images throughout, this graphic handbook to cartooning focuses on superheroes and their atmospheric world filled with speed and movement.




Creative Drawing Techniques


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Drawing is at the heart of all art and this inspiring book gives new ideas and techniques to help artists, whatever their ability, realize their visions. Based on years of teaching and artistic experience, Creative Drawing Techniques explains how to get the best out of different materials and express ideas, gain confidence and develop skills on paper. It emphasizes the importance of looking, analyzing and interpreting what we see. In doing so, it provides a rich and inspiring account of a basic but sophisticated need to make sense of the world around us. This book will be valued by everyone who wants to pick up a pencil and enjoy the creative art of drawing.




Cartooning


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Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.




Cartooning


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Jack Keely invites you into his cartooning world as he shows you how to create a variety of entertaining cartoons. This how-to book goes beyond the basics of the 'toon trade. The author explores popular tools, explains his own cartooning techniques, and demonstrates his method of developing each character’s cute and cuddly or wild and wacky personality, step by step. Best of all, Cartooning 2 contains information about the wide array of career opportunities in the world of cartooning. With so many unique cartoons to inspire you, this helpful guidebook is sure to become a welcome addition to any cartooning enthusiast's library!




Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists


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Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.




Sketching from the Imagination: Sci-Fi


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An inspiring collection of drawings and articles exploring the sketchbooks and artistic practices of 50 talented sci-fi concept artists.




Creative Drawing


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Designed for an undergraduate course in Drawing I, Drawing Concepts, or Creative Drawing, Smagula's Creative Drawing emphasizes critical thinking in conjunction with fundamental techniques to achieve practical results.