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In the opening section, Chris covers how retro is different from regular cartoons, some basics like how to draw heads, body shapes, hands, feet, etc. These sections are pretty helpful especially if you want to start developing your own drawings later on.
The largest part of the book is how-to tutorials and character designs. A heavy focus is on families so you have several pages on moms, dads, sons, and daughters. I think this fits the subject matter since so many retro cartoons are about families and he gives a nice variety of designs too. Shortly after that, even pets get some pages and the designs are quite cute and definitely gives you some decent designs if you want to add them to your retro family. After that, there is a section about how to draw teenagers which is fairly good and followed by a somewhat lackluster section (or at least I find the designs to be that way) on how to draw pretty women. Finally, there is a section with a couple of scenes you can draw which is the only color section in the book. For whatever reason, I didn't like this section even though I love to draw scenes normally. I think it is possibly because all of the scenes seemed heavily inspired by existing cartoons (one is clearly Scooby-Doo inspired for example) and the coloring is a little too basic for my taste. Shading and coloring are not covered in any detail in this book which is somewhat uncommon for a cartooning book and might be disappointing to some.
Ultimately, you get a lot of tutorials and characters to draw in a cool style. This book has inspired some drawings and some doodling on my part and I hope to doodle more in the future. It covers basic character designs well. I only wish there was a section on hairstyles and a bit more about posing or action poses in the book. These are minor complaints and I think this book would appeal to all skill levels since the designs are simple and it gives a lot of inspiration and ideas for those who want to experiment. I think this book is better than other cartooning books because it takes one style or type and covers it fairly well. There are not many lackluster designs here either which cannot be said of other drawing books. Best of all, this book is easy to get online and cheap which is always a good thing. If you'd like to see a couple of drawings I did from this book, take a look at the links below:
Two Kids Waiting For The Bus
Angry, Spoiled Rotten Cheerleader
So I wouldn't use this book as a general "how to draw" book because it is so stylized and simplified.
Chris Hart writes a lot of cartoon drawing books. The directions here are clear; it's not a bad book. But I really do think it's "just OK." It's a broad look at "retro" cartoons (think Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, and the more recent Power Puff Girls).So I wouldn't use this book as a general "how to draw" book because it is so stylized and simplified.
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New review: on a second read, this does not seem to be worth 5 stars. Down to 2 stars. After all, "Retro" means for Hart a rip off Hanna-Barbera Productions. 1970s, early 1980s. Probably the original Batman is Antique, and Lil Abner is Babylonian.
This is a book about simple cartoon drawings. Nothing special.New review: on a second read, this does not seem to be worth 5 stars. Down to 2 stars. After all, "Retro" means for Hart a rip off Hanna-Barbera Productions. 1970s, early 1980s. Probably the original Batman is Antique, and Lil Abner is Babylonian.
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I started drawing character designs for a small animation studio in San Diego, California, when I was still in High School in Los Angeles. I used to drive 136 miles, each way, on the weekends, when I was 16, just for the opportunity to get paid to draw. Cartooning was a magical experience to me.
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.I started drawing character designs for a small animation studio in San Diego, California, when I was still in High School in Los Angeles. I used to drive 136 miles, each way, on the weekends, when I was 16, just for the opportunity to get paid to draw. Cartooning was a magical experience to me.
I graduated from High School, and attended the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. At Cal-Arts, we had to do a lot of intense animation, which I found tedious. I was more interested in character design, and story, rather than drawing twelve poses to create one second of movement. It wasn't for me.
So I left and enrolled in, and graduating from, New York University. The social scene at Valencia consisted of a sandwich shop, where you could buy a magazine, if you got there early enough. New York city had slightly more to offer.
After I graduated, I worked as a staff writer on several NBC prime-time, comedy-variety television shows. I also wrote for 20th Century Fox, MGM-Pathe', The Showtime Cable TV Network and Paramount Pictures. But then the Writer's Guild went on strike. Writers in Hollywood weren't allowed to work for TV or the screen. So I went back to my cartooning roots. And I began writing for the Blondie comic strip, and began contributing regularly to Mad Magazine, and did some cartooning for magazines.
My cartoon work got noticed by Watson-Guptill, a premier publisher of art books. They asked me to do a book for them on drawing cartoons. They had never done that before. The result was 'How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips,' and it sold briskly. They asked me to do another, and then another. Well, I've sold over 3 million books domestically since then, have 19 translations, and I'm still at it.
My book, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' quickly became the number one selling art book in the country (source: Bookscan). It is also the winner of the prestigious New Jersey Library Association's Garden State Teen Book Award for 2004 in the category of nonfiction for grades 6-12.
The Young Adult Library Services Association selected two of my books for their prestigious "2003 Quick Picks for Young Adults." Those titles are: "Anime Mania: How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation" and "Mecha Mania: How to Draw the Battling Robots, Cool Spaceships, and Military Vehicles of Japanese Comics." my title, 'Manga Mania: How to Draw Japanese Comics,' was selected for 2002.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) chose my book, 'Drawing Faeries: A Believer's Guide,' for their 2004 'Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults' reading list. The 'Children of the New Earth' online magazine awarded the book its 'CNE seal of Excellence.'
My book, "Manhwa Mania," which introduces Korean style comics to manga audiences, was chosen as a "Quick Pick for Relunctant Young Readers" by the American Library Association in 2006, ages 12-18.
In 2004, I was asked by the Loew-Cornell Art Supply Company to develop a series of eight top-quality art kits, which would feature my manga, cartooning and comic drawings. The kits are now completed. They will be available, on Amazon, in fall, 2006.
My work has also been been featured in such publications as American Artist, Newtype (the premier manga publication), Mad Magazine, Highlights for Children, Crayola Kids, Ranger Rick, Cat Fancy, Dog Fancy and Boy's Life. My tutorials have been featured on Animation World Network, one of the leading websites of the animation industry. I've also been a cover story on the industry trade magazine, "Publisher's Weekly."
And if you've read this far into my bio, then I'm more impressed with you than you are with me!
Thank you so very much for letting me offer some inspiration to you in your art adventures. Keep Drawing!
Chris
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