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The Art of Cartooning: how to do it.

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The Art of Cartooning

The Art of Cartooning: how to do it.

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  • Introduction to Cartooning
  • Materials for Cartooning
  • Let's Draw: Basics
  • Drawing Action
  • Caricature Techniques
  • Animals and Objects
  • Creating Comics
  • Animating Cartoons
  • Cartoon Advertising
  • Editorial and Sports Cartoons
  • Gags and Humor
  • Drawing Greeting Cards
  • Grumbacher Library Overview
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But you will want to take advanta of various graphie techniq you develop your own car Onthe following pages refe Will be made to all the you see on these. two pag drawing Vellum or Tissue pad for tracing ‘for gray wash Various pen points and holders I \\ | 8 brush for Color or gray wash Aor opaque color. v Pesigners Opaque Water Colors ood used for Color wash over line drawings as well as flat opaque color or fel-tipped #3 brush for outline work qj White opaque water olor for ‘overing mis Felttipped pen (black) orerhignlignts, Fettieped pen( black) it? . ‘Aine middle Cote the dts hore Tat dais Tt the nes Draw a circ. Dont worry if its not perfect Bend exe line. hate way between the dotsand “ine Torn the outta the bottom of the Circle: Teupaedoen Yauire on your way, You can use Add a’ “handle” put a*C*in o a felt upped pen ora soft pencil (38) ‘on one side Ard on eyebrows line the middle. HS an ear. ermal i) ‘or a ball-point [Link] lightly i saan ret pencil, then goover the Sketch 10 ink or felt-ti ped ‘pen. Erase the pencil py Recicae ud a dor the side ‘and a line You can add arms. Simple Point the eet the way you want them fo go. Anda cide emer ne fe He's checking his LP 1, tha ity * oy ‘et se fear sal bananas By Geog, | ver the how he make an ‘think you'e tri pe coe ng Ypert re she riangle - a Z ed Cg wits TL Me cs> nia lines, Dont be afraid totry all kinds oF ngs (3 (co Move the eyes ” sideways for carey Cire give aman tiveness the eyes direction ph ) When you want longs ‘to draw an action Aes ya's, lookat yourself Ae cat inamirror — or ote peal ‘round * how your ol ore rmprevitn ( ‘your legs, for instance. ne Wien ON You can work with Zo basic square and rectangular and Childrens’ features round Shapes ay re low in the circle feline ‘Complicai ond close together rawit A long body A body Curly hair co) Teeth ora beard e five a little fon ate ‘no -_ The stars os, and action * slingaas /Z ching nants picture The whole family thas approximately the Same head size wesc eames eer on ; is page 5 em bate i felt tipped marker features people and water color wash . get older. Now for some action —> Ready tor aciion?” Youve made this face Line. males, ashoe ) Most people can draw ae oo a Stick figure. Do it. ree ee ‘the outside of the stick Figure lines. Troce it again and add a littie girth tothe. body and a few details There are many great cartoonists each one is yecognized by [Link] her own style. You can Wrore on developing your own unique style: Wore are a few variations of technique: ‘These cartoon Figures are more “realistic” but are trig fine pen line 4 simplified form of Gnd loose style S| illustration. the 7) ‘the end result Color is water color se or Se preparatory wash. drawings MO» ey “sel oo 0? ee! Sf \ines CELL when you add some action ties find @ shadow under Your mon youve ral Yor him cing. Here's a chance 40 add some. action tunes and stars and falling leaves jomake a cartoon with réal Impact. Sorry. Who did that, ry 2 Have iia a These characters are done iin paque water cobre with a ith out lie mr India Ink & Slanted eyebrows, Squinty eves, Round nose ond cheeks A coricature doesn lic Aearicature is an exaggerated Portrait. Take note of dry particular _>- feature and overemphasie it 2 big pointed nose should become Yeally big and really pointed . Proctice your caricature on (lose personal friends -small ones => You sure thm not taller than this Har ? Alot of teeth. « ster ge ubject isalitte 4 Dad jras bigears Aye UO Grd'acoublechin. ond iok Sls nr The group caricature above the Photograph was made for a Film Crew that Spent two weeks ther in Alaska. Some of then Ae in the photo . Each person in +the drawing was sketched from life and then assembled into tha (grove picture. is drawing oF a tiger by Bob Jones is more elaborate than anything most oF us Should attempt. But we recognize the fundamental reality in the drawing Dorit be afraid or ashamed to use'scrap’ teal photographs of objects oranimals that youcan trace on a tissue pad,or use a light box - Then retrace to make @ more unique cartoon character. 6 Some distortion Your very ovin distortion Yatoon character ‘Animals and people resemble. Gach other, here's @ way fo tf you can draw things from life you 1 become a better draw a dog ee /, es SSE onigoom (gts salr e) Ed 0 Qo, ( or 0 Cen ‘the body back ( Practice sketching. Cartooning can make ———————_ inanimate things come to life. Quack GATE Asmile becomes a bird a duck Ee ( Mlustration in: A comic Strip in need of an idea. That's what it5 all ‘obout. You need a story ora character or a joke or a Cost of characters and’a title. Then you cai Start your Cartooning. lets do a comic strip together ‘Thee’ a title lod ‘And a character. The color for a The drawing 1s Gone with come stupis done) 0 felt fipped pen. You can Gna separate piece Use 0 pen or brush and ink of tracing paper, not directly on tthe art work. a NOU DO?” Get an alphabet froma Seiad fomorae yourset with the various letter forms. kh rent A | sorwords in batioon a ing are aualtale In a weieeheingm perci, — Apaelutioutenlsing are of sheets ond goaeritinnkusing "nes ean od cred or ‘the obvicus ‘Action lines, (Ka ‘ORBEA HIP TEEN ABER, ‘A thought Balloony — ‘coup BA a furnin | lovnsies, tome 06 Shading ina drawing pana ir PuILOSOPHICAL KID Mass of black for Strong confrast caw BE A PRE: HISTORIC LOVER, SY) fans, You start witha story idea nd a script, The example oheser® ig & song called “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly’ created for Schglastic Rocky nc, fer television. #8 designed to th chlaren, ard these oF us {Shomever learned, about adverbs. ‘These are the lyrics (the script) ‘p bedeveloped into three minutes of animation ‘After the action is planned in a storyboard, d Final design of the characters and Settings ( backgrounds) is made beat The animation company that did thistilm is Pmt Kimmelman and Associates. € Thestoryboard is roughed out in jencil and traced over with @ fut-tipped pen, then colored wit markers. ln this Film jt was decided to color ‘the characters and use a black and white line drawing in the background. ‘Afier the, storyboard is developed and characters designed, Here are a couple of ‘ Gimote detailed layout of the action is made. Each neajor’change Inebetween steps From ecco ne in Soene or movement is detailed in drawings like these. She seene to another. ¢ ee a i Te ig 4 i yf In-between drawings are made, frame by frame to Capture the moverhent of the characters. ‘the iB ‘rawsings are made on afferent "levels" individval drawings for ook, ‘an arm movement over a body, est Yor instance, without ( having te draw the He cas: whole body ‘are colored ‘from the back F So that the This arm is back outline of = of the man the drawing remains clean This armis = at his side The layouts are traced on to transparent Ce's in ink oF transferred by copy machine. Enchof thedrawings - 1440 Cels have peg-holes andcan be worked frames per minute of 35mm, ‘Oh, one on top of the other, over a table film ~is pietogrs pied ona oy i Q nd I) ‘R This is the background €9U'pped with a light box, ea eSpecially designed Advertising ‘A storyboard for a commercial to be fiimed in live-action is oftendone ina simple cartoon style: It gives @ clear indication of the action that i5 planned. Ae ‘This storyhoard was done with oa fett-tipped ol and colored with fett-tipped markers ‘from original pencil sketcheS . Notice how detail con be suggested in a foose cartoon drawing in this blow-up of frame*2 Flannel uit, Where's your gray, A soft pencil (38) is us by Rowland wilson, He uses watercolor wash for his Colors . The ad was Created for a gol fourrament program Editorial & Sports .an ediforial inthe Regepaper and illustrate it, Bert seat Here's one abou — 7 Node bathing, > faery. Heh heh This cartoon is the work of Jay N; Darling, one of Americas foremost political Gartoonists . It was published 6.1919 and appears in“A Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy 17%-1976" One of the oldest forms of cartooning is the political Cartoon , dn editorial statement about current events. Here's an example. A classic.

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