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Cartooning: The Ultimate Character Design Book

Cartooning: The Ultimate Character Design Book
By Christopher Hart

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Chris Hart’s how-to-draw books have sold in the several millions of copies. Now, in his latest, he delivers detailed instructions, inspiring ideas, and invaluable tips for creating appealing and original manga-style characters. Character design is the key to success in comic books and animated films, and with this clear step-by-step guide, it’s a skill that can be quickly learned. Starting with the basics—body types, facial features, costumes, and expressions—Chris shows how to draw a hyper kid, bratty teen, lovable pooch, cool rapper, and many other distinctive types. Then, he takes the reader on a guided tour in search of original characters in places that range from suburban malls to the glitter and glamour of Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #32650 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-05-06
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 144 pages

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Entertaining and educational!4
This book is particularly good for beginners but doesn't dumb it down too much that you'll outgrow the book too quickly. I've always wanted to draw but wasn't interested in re-creating a boring bowl of fruit or a done to death vase of roses!

Chris manages to capture the funny side of characters and accentuates their quirkiness with ease. He also explains things like why the 'Know-It-All' girl's eyes must curve upwards [they make her appear condescending] or why the 'Pizza Delivery' guy has to look elongated, lanky and awkward and what features help him appear this way.

Lots to do in this book so stock up on sketch pads, pencils and erasers!

Hilarious is correct5
Purchased this book after loving another cartooning book: Drawing the new adventure cartoons also by C. Hart. The books opens with an extensive character design lab which covers all(?) I need to know about creating characters: drawing the head, noses, eyes, facial expressions, body types, feet, hands, footware and more. I love the humor Hart uses to bring the characters to life and the how he categorized them: big city characters, suburbs, spoiled junior, rich witch and hundreds more. Lots of fun and extremely educational.

Hilarious and clever! 5
The book starts the way all instructional books should. It builds a foundation, explains the tools needed (start with a pencil) goes over basic techniques, and then builds on that. The book gets into more detail, details that only an observant professional and expert like Chris Hart can see, i.e. How to draw people of different ages, rubbery mouths, different character types. I loved the section on character types from the suburbs. He clarified a lot. Funny, hilarious stuff - The Leading Man who collects his own autograph. I'm a big fan and this is my favorite.