Drawing Awesome Cartoon Characters


Book Description

Cartoons are fun to look at, but they take a lot of work to create. Aspiring artists learn how to draw memorable details that make cartoon characters come alive on the page. Different techniques are introduced, such as creating a sense of motion and emphasizing different features to give characters distinct personalities. Readers are presented with a variety of cartoons to try their hand at drawing—from a sporty grandma to a creepy villain. Each cartoon is shown through step-by-step instructions of the whole drawing process, as well as full-color illustrations of the finished product.




Cartoon Cool


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One of the world's leading cartoon artists shows readers how to capture the retro look of Sponge Bob, Dexter, and other popular comics, revealing how to recapture the 1950s in cartoons.




Learn to Draw Cartoons


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Thanks to Christopher Hart's simplified process, anyone can create dynamic cartoon characters right away. He has developed the easiest-ever approach to drawing the basics like heads, bodies, and those super-important cartoon expressions. Hart helps beginners apply these fundamentals to a variety of fun types and settings including animals, under-the-sea locales, stock characters, and popular backgrounds. Each lesson is laid out in accessible steps, accompanied by Chris's personable instruction.




Drawing Awesome Cartoon Characters


Book Description

Cartoons are fun to look at, but they take a lot of work to create. Aspiring artists learn how to draw memorable details that make cartoon characters come alive on the page. Different techniques are introduced, such as creating a sense of motion and emphasizing different features to give characters distinct personalities. Readers are presented with a variety of cartoons to try their hand at drawing—from a sporty grandma to a creepy villain. Each cartoon is shown through step-by-step instructions of the whole drawing process, as well as full-color illustrations of the finished product.




How to Draw Cartoon Animals


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An instructional guide for drawing cartoon animals.




How to Draw Animation


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Provides instructions on drawing and instilling movement in animal and human animated characters, including children, individualizing characters, and revealing emotion, and offers an interview with one of the directors of "The Lion King" and advice on becoming a professional animator




Drawing Shape by Shape


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A three-in-one, updated compilation of Chris Hart's popular books Draw a Circle, Draw a Square, and Draw a Triangle, now complete with a new introduction and templates. The bestselling how-to author breaks down the drawing process into its simplest components, so it's easy and fun for kids to learn. Every child can master these basic shapes, and that's all they need to begin creating mermaids, superheroes, fire-breathing dragons, and a circus full of animals.




Cartooning the Head and Figure


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THE QUESTION: Are there new ways of opening the field of cartooning to any one who likes to draw? THE ANSWER: Yes! Here are tried and proven methods that explain, simplify and teach every one, regardless of age, the art of cartooning. Step by step procedures with more than 3,000 illustrations . . .




Cartoonimals


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It's a cartooning fun-fur-all! Draw 48 animal characters in short, simple steps Four paws-up for Cartoonimals! This book makes drawing animal characters super easy and more fun than a barrel of monkeys. It begins with the basics - sketching, drawing facial features, body types, finding the right pose - ultimately, you'll learn how to give your characters the kind of expressions, actions and attitudes that make them much more than lines on a page. Over 45 step-by-step demonstrations help you draw a cool and comical variety of characters, from a guitar-strumming octopus, to a porcupine pirate, to a surfing vulture. Before you know it, you'll be bringing your own original creations to life. With the expert advice in this book, if you can dream it, you can draw it!




101 Cartoon Characters


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Simple step-by-step line illustrations make it easy for children to draw with confidence. Each title contains 101 different images in all manner of shapes, sizes and poses.