Drawing Cartoons: A Complete Guide

This is the ideal introduction for budding cartoonists, covering all the essential aspects of the art. There's useful advice on the tools and equipment needed, and all the techniques are clearly and simply presented. Featuring numerous step-by-step examples and demonstrations, and more than 400 cartoons and caricatures, this book tells you how to: draw basic cartoons and create characters; depict expressions and gestures; draw portrait, political, stylized, and quick-draw caricatures; capture the personalities of your subject; develop your characters and create a comic-strip narrative; write scripts and graphic stories for your superheroes; bring your characters to life in animation sequences; create a storyboard, and more. Essential for all aspiring cartoon artists.