It's a cartooning fun-fur-all! Draw 48 animal characters in short, simple steps Four paws-up for Cartoonimals! This book makes drawing animal characters super easy and more fun than a barrel of monkeys. It begins with the basics - sketching, drawing facial features, body types, finding the right pose - ultimately, you'll learn how to give your characters the kind of expressions, actions and attitudes that make them much more than lines on a page. Over 45 step-by-step demonstrations help you draw a cool and comical variety of characters, from a guitar-strumming octopus, to a porcupine pirate, to a surfing vulture. Before you know it, you'll be bringing your own original creations to life. With the expert advice in this book, if you can dream it, you can draw it!

There's more to great cartooning than drawing a funny face. You need to match that head to a body, give your character expression and attitude, and move him this way and that to tell your story, all while keeping his look consistent from frame to frame. Cartoon 360 covers every angle of drawing fantastic cartoon people, from coming up with fresh ideas for an endless assortment of faces, to bringing your work to a polished, professional finish with inking and coloring. Harry Hamernik's three-dimensional drawing method helps you design fun cartoon characters from head to toe AND draw them again and again, from any angle and in any pose you want. Easy-to-follow demonstrations show the start-to-finish evolution of a variety of character types and poses. Every page is loaded with fun examples and expert secrets, like the amazing power of feature spacing and head height measurements. A power-packed, must-have guide for anyone who wants to draw cartoons, this book contains enough skills and insights to go around—for characters that pop off the page.

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Is it true that "numbers don′t lie?" Is America "the land of equal opportunity?" Is marriage a "dying institution?" Each of the 23 essays in Second Thoughts reviews a familiar conventional wisdom, and introduces relevant sociological concepts and theories in order to explain, qualify, and sometimes debunk that conventional wisdom.

A hilarious story about one very big-hearted moose who is only too happy to host a menagerie of animals in his antlers – until his new guests go too far!

The best cartoonists jam-pack their work with action that moves the story along. So how do you capture this kind of motion in your work? Whoosh 250 Ways to Get Motion into Your Drawings can help. Cartoonist and illustrator Carlos Gomes Cabral shares his tips and tricks to help you create attention-grabbing drawings that practically leap off the pages. It's all in the details: sometimes simplicity, rhythm, the position of a shadow, the use of a speed line, or even an exaggerated expression can make all the difference. Cabral walks you step-by-step through 250 fantastic techniques, including: The importance of a good silhouette Using lines of action to help create character's gestures How to use basic shapes to suggest movement The best positions to increase drama in a scene How to tell a compelling narrative with art alone And if all that isn't enough, ten great artists share their trademark secrets for bringing their own drawings to life Whether you work digitally on a computer or at a drawing table with a good old-fashioned pencil, this book will help you develop the skills you need to create movement and drama--and take your dynamic drawing skills to a whole new level.

Eleanor the elephant, a retired circus star, finds a new career as the resident artist in the city zoo. "A tender and funny fantasy, sure to be as popular as his previous books, some twenty-five award winners." -- Publishers Weekly