Thanks to Christopher Hart's simplified process, anyone can create dynamic cartoon characters right away. He has developed the easiest-ever approach to drawing the basics like heads, bodies, and those super-important cartoon expressions. Hart helps beginners apply these fundamentals to a variety of fun types and settings including animals, under-the-sea locales, stock characters, and popular backgrounds. Each lesson is laid out in accessible steps, accompanied by Chris's personable instruction.

Cartooning’s a great form of art for young kids, because it’s so unintimidating: there are no mistakes, only funny faces to create, cute creatures to make, and new ideas to explore. With the help of this newest entry in Lark’s highly regarded art series, children can develop their own original cartoons and go as far as their imaginations will take them. There are plenty of practical tips, lots of hands-on activities to hone technique, and more than 60 original drawings for budding artists to work on. Beautifully designed pages with minimal text completely capture why cartoons are cool, and explain how to draw smiles and smirks, legs and other limbs, pesky pets, funny food, creepy crawlies, and even beloved dinosaurs.

How To Draw Cartoons is a brilliant, full-color book for eight- to twelve-year-olds who want to learn how to draw top-quality cartoons. Throughout the book the author uses a combination of step-by-step drawings, pencil workings, and final color images, whichever technique is best suited to explaining the technique being addressed; it is not a rigid how-to style. The book is divided into these clear, thematic chapters: Body Basics; Animal Antics; Developing Characters; Pencils! Color! Action!; On Location; and Comic Strips. All in all, How to Draw Cartoons stands out from other cartooning books because it is young, fun, and contemporary, and is written by an author who is infectiously passionate about all aspects of illustration.

With bestselling author Christopher Hart, creating cartoon characters is as easy as A, B, C and 1, 2, 3! Beginning with basic letters and numbers, Hart crafts clever step-by-step tutorials that show how to turn an A into a clunky robot, B into a buzzing bee, and C into a chomping dinosaur. His inventive system is a great way to engage children with letters, numbers, and art.

An instructional guide for drawing cartoon animals.

Mark Heath teaches aspiring cartoonists how to tickle anyone's funnybone. All the basics are presented using his proven methods.

Shows how to draw cartoon people, dogs, cats, and birds, explains how to make animals act like people, and discusses composition, dialogue balloons, and layout