cartooning

Cartoonist Christopher Hart offers a behind-the-scenes look at cartooning, offering step-by-step instructions for drawing cartoon heads, characters, words, and panels.

Examines comics as an art form by detailing the process of how comics are created by combining writing, art, genre, trends, subject matter, and themes. Presented in comic book format.

An illustrated guide to drawing cartoons, providing lessons on drawing cartoon characters' heads, facial features, and figures, designing and costuming characters, conveying body language, and laying out scenes, and looking at robots, animals, and fantasy creatures.

Public television cartoonist Mark Kistler shows how to draw eleven space-age creations and creatures including a "pipe pet," a submarine from another planet, and a telescoping tarantula.

Contains step-by-step instructions for drawing Transformers, including Optimus Prime, Megatron, Ratchet, and other characters.

Step-by-step instructions show how to create several kinds of cartoons, including flip-book animations, with a variety of media, from felt-tip pens to watercolors to computer programs. Recommends Web sites throughout the book.

A wide-ranging clip art library of professionally drawn manga illustrations features high-resolution artwork on a companion disc and instructional guidelines for such topics as coloring, adding figures to backgrounds, and combining character art with a text document.

Provides step-by-step instructions on drawing cartoons and includes discussion of materials, methods, drawing characters, and digital techniques.