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    Cartoon Drawing For Beginners
    Cartoon Drawing For Beginners
    Cartoon Drawing For Beginners
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    Cartoon Drawing For Beginners

    By Laura Whitworth

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    To learn how to draw cartoons and comics effectively, you have to first understand the purpose behind them. Anyone can learn to draw cartoons and comics in a mechanical way, but to become successful, you have to get the meaning of what makes people want to read them, and continue to read them. Once that is understood, the drawing is much easier and will come across as being a reflection of purpose.

    Learning how to draw cartoons is mostly done by observation and practice. As we study some of the masters of the art of cartooning, you will discover that they learned in various ways, but they never quit drawing. That is the secret. If you form the habit of doing a little bit of drawing each day, you will be on your way to success. Or you can do a lot of drawing each day too, and that will be fine.

    If you are really serious about the pursuit of cartooning and the drawing of comics as a career, you should seek the best instruction you can get. Just think about how many hours a student puts in to any career path, such as a doctor, lawyer, or even a plumber, and you will find that to become a pretty good cartoonist, you can do the same, only the time spend would be considerably less. Even so the satisfaction of being able to earn a living doing something your love to do is a great motivating force, and you can do just that if you decide that it is what you want.

    This book will give you an insight into the world of cartoon-drawing, its rules and traditions, and the paths to follow. Once you get the main idea and purpose behind drawing the cartoons you will be able to develop your own authentic recognizable creative style and break into the big time of cartoon-drawing!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLaura Whitworth
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9781524295929
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      Cartoon Drawing For Beginners - Laura Whitworth

      Introduction

      Early Cartoons and Comics

      More on Political Cartoons

      The 1800s and Early 1900s

      Comic Strips and The Funnies

      The Super Heroes

      Drawing Super Characters

      Adventure Comic Strips

      Horror Comics

      Lifestyle Comics

      What Does It Take To Learn How To Draw Cartoons and Comics?

      How To Learn To Draw Cartoons and Comics In The Fast Lane

      Is There Really A Fast Track In Learning How To Draw Cartoons Successfully?

      The Nuts and Bolts

      The Process

      Timing

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      To learn how to draw cartoons and comics effectively, one has to first understand the purpose behind them. Anyone can learn to draw cartoons and comics in a mechanical way, but to become successful, one has to understand the meaning of what makes people want to read them, and continue to read them. Once that is understood, the drawing is much easier and will come across as being a reflection of purpose.

      The use of cartoons has long been used to make us laugh; make a political point, to draw people's attention to a particular topic and as a diversion from the troubles in our lives.

      Drawings and simple illustrations trace their roots to the cave drawings of civilizations that existed thousands of years ago; these ancient cave dwellers painted simplistic sagas of their daily lives, showing various animals they hunted and crops they harvested. Ancient Egyptian paintings and hieroglyphics vividly depicted on the walls of temples and monuments leave an historical record of these ancient people's daily lives.

      Cartoons in the modern era began as satirical comments about contemporary society highlighting the absurd and ridiculous aspects of people's lives. From political satire to pure enjoyment, the cartoon and comic approach to art has helped keep people involved and has provided an accepted form of entertainment for all.

      The comic movement as an art form took shape as a comment on society in general and current social and political events specifically. In more modern times the comic strip, comic books, and single cartoons and comic animations for television and film, have been more in vogue.

      Learning how to draw cartoons is mostly done by observation and practice. As we study some of the masters of the art of cartooning, you will discover that they learned in various ways, but they never quit drawing. That is the secret. If you form the habit of doing a little bit of drawing each day, you will be on your way to success. Or you can do a lot of drawing each day too, and that will be fine.

      Early Cartoons and Comics

      The modern day cartoon really got its start way back in the 1700s in Italy when the caricature came into being. This form of drawing or art form means to exaggerate or slightly distort for effect, the most striking features of a subject to draw attention and make a point. All of the great masters from Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Benini drew caricatures. It was deemed an appropriate form of art that gave the essence of a person with a few defining strokes of the pen. The results were not always done in a negative manner, as it was fashionable to show the best side of individuals, particularly if they were

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