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by Lou Darvas
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ISBN: 0486426041 Dover Publications Price: $12.95 |
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Beginning and experienced cartoonists will prize this user-friendly guide. Generously illustrated, it abounds in tips on techniques such as pen and brush handling, patterns, coloring, and attaining perspective. Drawing specifics include helpful hints on depicting people, animals, expressions, and clothing, how to indicate motion and movement, and the use of props.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1960.
Table of Contents for You Can Draw Cartoons
| Introduction | |||||||
| Your Materials | |||||||
| Loosening Up | |||||||
| Pen and Brush Handling | |||||||
| Patterns and Coloring | |||||||
| The Comic Head | |||||||
| Expression | |||||||
| The Hand | |||||||
| Feet and Shoes | |||||||
| The Simple Comic Figure | |||||||
| Clothes and Wrinkles | |||||||
| The Complete Figure | |||||||
| Man in Motion | |||||||
| Kids | |||||||
| Animals | |||||||
| The Women | |||||||
| Stock Types | |||||||
| Off Beat Comics | |||||||
| Perspective | |||||||
| Comic Gimmicks and Props | |||||||
| Comic Lettering | |||||||
| Caricatures | |||||||
| Gag Panels | |||||||
| The Comic Strip | |||||||
| The Sports Cartoon | |||||||
| The Political Cartoon | |||||||
| General Newspaper Feature | |||||||
| Gloomies | |||||||
| In Conclusion |