9780486423111: Learn to Draw Comics

Synopsis

This user-friendly guide from the 1930s offers aspiring cartoonists a wealth of practical advice. Rich in period flavor, it supplies the ageless foundations of comic art. Abundant illustrations and clear, nontechnical prose cover: creating expressions, attaining proportion and applying perspective, depicting anatomy, simple shading, achieving consistency, lettering, and writing a strip.

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Synopsis

This instruction classic offers aspiring cartoonists guidance in drawing comic strips. Abundantly illustrated, it presents helpful tips on creating expressions, attaining proportion, depicting anatomy, and achieving consistency. Excellent advice covers simple shading, characterisation, drawing children and animals, applying perspective, lettering, writing a strip and the use of cartoons in advertising. Originally published in the 1930's, this volume, rich in period flavour from a golden age in comics, offers a user-friendly guide for anyone approaching cartooning as a hobby or looking for a start toward a more serious interest.

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