The Cartoonist's Big Book of Drawing Animals

Name: The Cartoonist's Big Book of Drawing Animals
ISBN: 9780823014217

Christopher Hart

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · February 19, 2008

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Who it’s for: Learn to draw cartoon animals through simple steps covering their features, emotions, and character types.
Themes: Step-by-step cartoon animal drawing, Animal expressions and emotions, Cartoon animal character types
Genres: Cartooning, Animals & Plants in Art, Drawing Techniques

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All of Chris Hart’s how-to-draw titles are best-sellers. And the best-sellers among all of his best-sellers are the ones about animals. How to Draw Cartoon Animals, just one example, appears regularly on the BookScan Top 50 Art Books list, with more than 190,000 copies sold. Now The Cartoonist’s Big Book of Drawing Animals is ready to roar onto the market!

All the most popular animals are here, including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favorite sidekick animals—pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. Simple step-by-step drawings show how to capture every cartoon emotion, from cutesy-sweet to begging to scheming, and how to create every box-office type, from baby animals to villain animals to clueless animals and much more. Faces, bodies, paws, feet, wings, tails—every part of dozens of animals is explained in this bumper book by the world’s leading author of instructional art books. It’s a mega-menagerie for cartoonists!

Cartoon Animal Expressions

Learn to draw cartoon animals through simple steps covering their features, emotions, and character types.

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Step-by-step drawings of dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants
Guidance on animal faces, bodies, paws, feet, wings, and tails

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Expressions from cutesy-sweet to begging to scheming
Character types including baby, villain, and clueless animals

Where it sits

Cartooning	91%
Drawing Techniques	59%
Animals & Plants in Art	44%

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Cartooning
Art Teaching & Study
Animals & Plants in Art

Authors: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: February 19, 2008
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Step-by-step cartoon animal drawing · Animal expressions and emotions · Cartoon animal character types
Reading lane: Cartooning