'Drawing Cartoons: A Complete Guide' covers the essential aspects of drawing all types of cartoons and is an ideal introduction for the budding cartoonist. There's useful advice on the tools and equipment needed and all the techniques are very clearly and simply described, with numerous step-by-step examples and demonstrations, including over 400 cartoons and caricatures.
Topics covered include:
- How to draw basic cartoons and create different characters
- Portraying expressions and gestures, and adding speech bubbles
- How to draw portrait, political, stylized or quick-draw caricatures
- Capturing the personalities of your subjects
- Developing your cartoon characters and creating a narrative in comic strip form
- Writing scripts and graphic stories for your superheroes
- How to give your characters life and make them move in animation sequences
- Making key drawings and creating a storyboard
