Cartooning Basics: Creating the Characters and More - Softcover

Barnhart, Duane; Davis, Jim

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9780965713641: Cartooning Basics: Creating the Characters and More

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965713644 ISBN 13: 9780965713641

Publisher: Cartoon Connections Press, 2004

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Presents step-by-step instructions on creating a variety of comic book characters.

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About the Author:

Duane Barnhart started selling cartoons professionally in the 1960’s. Since then, his cartoons have been published in Saturday Evening Post, MPLS / ST. Paul Magazine, and many others. He has drawn a national daily comic strip, weekly editorial cartoons, and advertising cartoons. He has designed print, and computer video products using Disney and Loony Tunes characters. In 1997, Duane and his wife, Angie, wrote CARTOONING BASICS, an award-winning how to draw book, and in 2004 the Barnharts completely revised and expanded their book. As a roster artist for the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Duluth Depot, Duane visits dozens of schools each year teaching cartooning to thousands of students in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and beyond.

Angie Barnhart has worked alongside her husband, Duane in their Minnesota bases cartooning and graphic design studio for over 20 years. During this time she has produced many publications and illustrations as a successful graphic designer and illustrator. When not in the studio, Angie visits schools libraries, and art centers teaching cartooning techniques to the next generation of cartoonists.

Review:

Gr. 5-8. The Barnharts, artists both (Duane is a professional cartoonist), have added 400 new illustrations to this edition of their cartooning primer, first published in 1997. A lot of kids will skip the illustrated cartoon time line...and go right to the technical stuff, appropriately introduced by a cartoon character called No. 2 (as in No. 2 pencil). Step-by-step directions for drawing heads--straight-on, in profile, and looking up, down, and sideways--lead off, followed by tips on creating facial expressions, body poses, hand movements, and several popular animals, along with hints on putting together single-panel cartoons and strips...kids (even teens and adults) who want guidance in traditional cartooning and character development will find solid instruction, encouragement, and loads of inspiration and examples to copy. --Stephanie Zvirin, Booklist, November 2004, American Library Association

Cartooning Basics strikes a perfect balance between the "how-to"; of drawing cartoons and the "aha!"; if generating creative ideas for cartooning. Going beyond step-by-step copying, Duane Barnhart, provides kids with the techniques and inspiration needed to be their own original and skilled cartoon artists. I wanted to grab a pencil and go! --Susan Rotilie, Program Manager for School Programs Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN, 1994

I didn't even wait 'til I got home! Duane Barnhart's Cartooning Basics is so fun, so irresistible, so empowering to a drawing-novice like me, that I began to experiment immediately and am still at it. He has found the delicate balance of great teaching&emdash;a gentle encouraging beginning for people at any skill level, and excellent quality to challenge me for years to come. Wham! Pow! Thanks Duane for getting me started so well in a new art form. --Eric Booth, Faculty of Juilliard and The Kennedy Center for the Arts

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