A comprehensive and practical guide to drawing cartoons successfully with expert projects and exercises.

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.

This inspiring book provides a detailed guide to drawing, painting and manipulating your own digital cartoons. It ispacked full with professional advice, fantastic examplesand practical step-by-step techniques showing how tocreate amazing characters and worlds. The book beginsby introducing the essential equipment and types ofcomputer software needed. A useful guide to digitaltechniques follows, which explains how to develop ascanned image, how to combine different media, addspeech bubbles and much more. The main sectionfeatures a range of projects for practising the techniques, and producing a variety of cartoon styles. - A teach-yourself practical guide to drawing cartoons onyour computer, suitable for beginners as well as moreexperienced artists. - Introduces all the essential computer software andequipment, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painterand the animation programs Flash and ImageReady.

A detailed step-by-step guide to techniques with instructive techniques and examples to all kinds of styles.

No matter what your background, The Everything Cartooning Book is the all-in-one reference to unlock your hidden potential and set you on the fast track toward a rewarding career in cartooning. Professional cartoonist Brad J. Guigar shows you everything from how to create believable characters and effective story lines to writing humor and getting published. This step-by-step guide shows you all the insider techniques and tricks you need to make it in this fun and creative field. Features tips on how to: Show movement Create cartoons for different genres Develop your individual style Craft story lines Sell your work and more Whether you like to draw Manga, create humorous animal characters, or satirize the world around you, The Everything Cartooning Book teaches you all you need to know to successfully follow your artistic dreams.

• Easy, progressive art course that shows beginners how to draw innovative manga. • Teaches the basic drawing skills needed to create the distinctive features of manga characters. • 13 tutorials cover all of the essential topics such as eyes, hair, clothing, accessories, lighting and coIor. • 10 step-by-step projects show how to create characters of all ages – children, teenagers and adults. • Written and illustrated by a collaborative group of manga artists.