Modern Cartooning: Essential Techniques for Drawing Today’s Popular Cartoons Kindle Edition

Modern Cartooning: Essential Techniques for Drawing Today’s Popular Cartoons Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Christopher Hart Page ID: B00A1MRDI4

CHRISTOPHER HART is the world’s bestselling author of drawing and cartooning books. His books have sold more than 3.1 million English-language copies and have been translated into 20 languages. Renowned for up-to-the-minute content and easy-to-follow steps, all of Hart’s books have become staples for a new generation of aspiring artists and professionals, and they have been selected by the American Library Association for special notice.
“First, let⠠s examine the various theories of cartooning from a contextual standpoint. Oh, what the heck, let⠠s just start drawing! You may be wondering if it⠠s possible to create cartoons with personality by beginning at a basic level. You foolish, foolish mortal. You⠠re only half right. The faces you⠠re going to begin with are easy to draw, but they⠠re also pro-level character designs that are highly entertaining and stuffed with personality. You can achieve these results by using a few simple head shapes and filling them with simplified facial features. But there⠠s more to it than that: The initial construction of the head shape (in this case, a circle) should remain conspicuous even in the final character design. This technique causes the head shape to appear as an obvious feature of your cartoon character. The basic head construction does not just serve as a guideline for the finished drawing; it becomes a caricature of a ⠠regular⠠ head. “
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File Size: 7806 KBPrint Length: 160 pagesPublisher: Watson-Guptill (March 26, 2013)Publication Date: March 26, 2013 Sold by:  Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B00A1MRDI4Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #168,273 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #28 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Graphic Design > Cartooning #179 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Graphic Design > Drawing #187 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Art > Instruction & Reference
Modern Cartooning is as suggested by most reviewers a beginner’s book. The confusion seems to be which beginner. I would suggest there are five types of beginners when it comes to drawing: 1) the three/four year who is exploring the use of crayons on paper and walls, 2) the ten year old who likes to draw people, pets, houses, cars and trees, etc., 3) the junior high or high school student who is thinking about a career in art because family and friends are constantly complementing them on their art, 4) the college art student developing an interested in comics and animation, 5) the 30, 40 or 50 year olds who never went beyond high school art but wants to explore their creativity by drawing and painting. If you like to draw and fit into one of the last three categories of beginners then this book is for you.

The problem for the ten year old is less the drawings and more the reading level of Chris’s written instructions. I suspect that younger beginners such as the ten year old would end up just looking at the pictures and hopefully doing the step-by-step drawings. They would be better off with one of Chris’s good step-by-step drawing books, such his books "The Cartoonist’s Big Book of Drawing Animals". However, if they have their heart set on Modern Cartooning and have a parent willing to work together it just might work. If the parent reads and discusses Chris’s written instructions and both draw the cartoons, it could be a very positive experience. This all assumes the parent is confident enough in their own drawing skills.

Drawing is really about observation. It requires the ability to judge shapes and their placement. Is the body large enough? Is the head positioned correctly? Are the eyes too large, too far apart, or too high or low on the face?
Not long ago, I blogged about Christopher Hart and his blog, “Chris Hart Books.” Christopher Hart is a very talented artist and author. He’s got a book out now, titled Modern Cartooning. As it says on the cover, it features “essential techniques for drawing today’s popular cartoons (Hart, cover).” Being an artist and an aspiring cartoonist, I find this book very fun and interesting. I’ve checked out one of his previous cartooning books at the library before, Cartooning for the Beginner. That book was very helpful to me, especially since I was working on a new comic strip. This book, Modern Cartooning, expands on cartooning, and teaches more things that I never knew before, and is a great guide for my cartooning. It’s very insightful, and it’s easy to understand. It’s great for someone who wants to sharpen their cartooning skills, as well as someone who is just starting out learning to draw cartoons.

One of the things that’s great for a beginner is, as I said, it’s easy to understand. It’s not overwhelming. Christopher Hart takes you step by step, through the book. He focuses on different parts of the character per section. There are nine sections, 10 counting the index. He starts with the head and the face, working towards angles, and the body, and more. He talks about different shapes for the head and it’s features, and different shapes for the body. It’s very interesting to see the shapes you can use for the head, the types of eyes, the body types. There are a variety of parts of the character that can define them in different, exciting, and humorous ways.

Christopher Hart’s style for cartooning, which he displays in this book, is simple and stylish. That, along with the humor he conveys in the book makes the book an entertaining lesson in cartooning.

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