| How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters: Create Original Characters with Lots of Personality (Quarto Book) |
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| Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series |
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| Aspiring cartoon artists, comic book collectors, and nostalgia buffs will discover a happy combination of cartoon history and practical instruction in this color-illustrated book. It teaches art students dozens of ways to simplify, exaggerate, and distort the people, animals, and objects in their illustrations to achieve hilarious effects. An overview of cartoon history showcases humorous characters as they appeared in nineteenth-century satire, in children’s books, in cartoons of the 1920s, in Hollywood animation of the 1940s, and in today’s manga and anime cartoons. The author shows how to create cartoons using a wide range of media, from pen and ink to paint and pixels. Art students will get tips on making their cartoons interesting with funny props and laughter-evoking backgrounds. Most important are the comic character types that they place in their illustrations’ foregrounds. Here’s how to create stock types—the idiot, the cutie-pie, the comic hero, the evil genius, the loyal sidekick, the straight man, and the heavy. Here, too, are imaginative ways to costume different characters, give them funny poses, and dramatize their emotions through facial expressions, such as fear, anger, boredom, amusement, or surprise. A final chapter advises beginning cartoonists on how to build a portfolio, present their work, create a web site, and find an agent and steady work. More than 300 illustrations. |
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Product Details |
- ISBN13: 9780764135736
- Condition: New
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 Get What Other Cartooning Books Miss: Style and Character Design |
| Review Date: March 10, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Ryan J. Benedetti, |
| An excellent book that fills a gaping hole in the cartooning field. A better title would've been Cartoon Character Design. The book accomplishes everything a How-To book accomplishes while focusing on helping budding cartoons work towards personal style. Each section contains tip lists, excellent shortcuts and insider notes you won't find in other books. I've collected cartooning books for over 30 years. This one is at the top of my list along with Cartooning the Head and Figure by Jack Hamm and Ben Caldwell's Cartooning series. |
More than drawing
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| Review Date: November 11, 2007 |
| Reviewer: William McDonald, Silver Spring, MD |
| This book has more than how to draw tough horoes and heroines, evil-looking villans and goofy anti-heroes. It goes into how to properly give color to your charactors and some information on scripting. |
A Wide Variety of Techniques Shown - Excellent for cartoonists!
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| Review Date: February 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Krishna M. Sadasivam, Tampa, FL USA |
There's something for everyone in Vincent Woodcock's "How to Draw..." book, whether you're new to cartooning, or a seasoned vet. This well-written and well-illustrated book focuses foremost on the techniques and approaches used in character design. It succeeds at its mission and then some, with sections on the fundamentals of drawing (hands, anatomy, and the importance of clear silhouettes), characterization (caricatures, action poses, acting) and professional practices (model sheets, presenting your work).
Not a single page in this 128 page book is wasted. It's filled to the brim with very useful information that any cartoonist would appreciate. A wide variety of character styles are also represented, providing a more complete picture (pardon the pun) on the diversity of character design. Highly recommended. |
Great book!
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| Review Date: April 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Mary R., Downers Grove, IL USA |
| The other reviews say it all. Great book with lots of tips and very diverse examples! |
A Range of Style & Depth
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| Review Date: April 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: C. Rodriguez, L.A., CA |
This book demonstrates a strong understanding of design, gesture, facial expression and texture. Vincent Woodcock's book should be a staple to any and all aspiring artists looking to get into animation or character design. His techniques are complete in explanation and he walks you through the mechanics of the body and how to push the stylization. He covers silhouette importance, body types, styles types, and tools.
The only reason I did not give a full 5 star rating is because there is no technical updating in it. Digital coloring is not covered, and I recommend its importance since the animation biz is mostly digital now. Aside from that, you will find it difficult to put the book down or not be inspired to create your own characters. Every page is filled with characters and styles. I highly recommend this book! |
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