Book Review - The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration

About the Book
In The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration, beginning cartoonists, animators, and illustrators will discover key concepts associated with learning the art of traditional cartooning and animation.

With this guide, dozens of tips from the pros will help you find the materials and tools you need to develop your own unique style. A combination of creative step-by-step projects and open practice areas offer encouragement and invite participation for those artists who want to put their newfound skills to immediate use.

You'll learn all the cartooning and animation tricks of the trade, including:

• The squash and stretch principle
• Exaggerating details
• Rendering faces and expressions
• Anthropomorphizing inanimate objects
• Creating original characters
• Mastering body shapes and movement
• Writing gags and jokes
• With so many tools at your disposal, why wait any longer to start animating? Get started, get drawing!

The Little Book of ... series focuses on delivering fun, approachable, and interesting art instruction in a fresh, portable format. With its contemporary design, open practice pages, creative exercises, and prompts that encourage interactivity, beginning artists learn the fundamentals of their craft, often with immediate results.

My Take on the Book
This is a great book that really walks you through how to illustrate and create fun cartoons. I loved that the book walks you step by step through the process of creating specific characters. The characters that you can create are fun and can allow you to create some great comics. I tend to make comics for my kids' lunches and this was a great book that allowed me to do just that!

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Book Review - Scratch Magic: Mandalas

About the Book

Stimulate your creativity with scratch art!

The books in this series are specifically designed for those who long to unveil a creation that is truly spectacular. You'll find 10 templates featuring mandalas just waiting to be freed from the page with the enclosed scratch stylus. Turn to the mandala as you open your mind, let your creativity flow, and discover the contemplative power of this age-old symbol. Reveal the colors beneath the surface and find yourself invigorated and inspired. The colorful backgrounds offer a great surprise effect and let every piece of art shine through. You can create wonderful pendants, bookmarks, cards, or beautiful works of art. Whether you keep them or give them away, they look wonderful in simple frames that you can hang up or set up for a gift. The smaller motifs can be used to create beautiful bookmarks, table cards, and much more.


My Take on the Book
With an enclosed stylus the person using this book of black and white craft pages will create beautiful pastel illustrations. The stylus is used to scratch off the parts of the surface which will display the lovely pastel colors. The 10 templates included are 9 different designs of mandalas plus one template is a frame. The templates are a nice variety with some small and some large designs.The author(s) give the person using this craft book options of ways to use the finished art work. Your creativity is the only limit in their use. 

Your child will enjoy hours of creative fun with this project book.
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Book Review - Guide To Cartooning

About the Book
A practical step-by-step guide for anyone interested in cartooning art, it contains original drawings in all styles to illustrate the instructions.

This is the book for anyone who wants to be a successful cartoonist. Easy-to-follow text and hundreds of illustrations teach the reader about

• the history of cartooning
• basic drawing skills
• greeting cards
• book and magazine illustration
• humor writing
• editorial and political cartoons
• caricature
• animation
• comic strips
• comic books

My Take on the Book
This is an amazing book that offers a ton of great ideas about how you can become a better artist. Filled with a number of activities that will get you drawing. While I am not a great artist this book made it easy to create some very cool art pieces. It allowed me to move forward and even create some creations that I am very proud of and the more and more that I use this the better I tend to get.


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