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Summary: One of the best
Review: Mark's book is one of the best I've seen dealing with getting started in the cartooning business. I use it myself for workshops I give. It's easy to follow and deals with the subject with wit and lots of fun imagery. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
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Summary: Great first time book for the budding cartoonist.
Review: Of all the cartooning books, I have thus far, Mark Heaths book is the first to talk about making mistakes and then pointing out his own. That gives you hope for your own work. Plus he draws funny.
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Summary: Not a great book for the money
Review: The book is only worth about $5. It has only a hundred or so pages that are more of the author's cartoons than any practical advice. On the last page of the book, the author points out all the mistakes he made in the book but decided to leave in so that he could point them out to us. I'm interested in cartooning/comic strips and I feel that I am no closer to being able to do that than I was before I read the book. I don't understand how this book got all great reviews. Don't be fooled like I was!
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Summary: Something for everyone from beginner to pro
Review: This book is the first one I read this year (back on Jan 1!). I've since re-read it a few times and continue to find it enjoyable and impressive.For me, Chapter Four alone is worth the price of admission. Page 79 is priceless, truly inspiring -- and I have to agree with it: after about 35 years of serious drawing, I still learn new things about cartooning all the time, it never stops. [And more than a couple of those new things are ones I learned out of this book.] What Mark Heath has achieved here is not easy: a fresh approach to the basics that can help raw newbies and wizened amateurs alike. I never felt like "this is stuff I've already read a million times" -- Mark sidesteps the usual intro material and approaches it from a new slant or adds new insights to it. If you're new, this is a great intro to cartooning that allows you lots of room to find your own style while homing in on solid quality work. If you're an old hand, this book will still show you a few new wrinkles, and re-awaken your love for the artform all over again. What more can you ask?
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Summary: Think Like a Cartoonist
Review: This is a great book for beginning cartoonists. Mark Heath's "Drawing Cartoons" is the first "how to draw" book to help me learn how to "think like a cartoonist." Most drawing books I've seen in the past give the reader step-by-step line drawings to copy. While this approach often results in a flashy finished-product for the reader, the beginning cartoonist is left without the "tools" for creating drawings from scratch, on his or her own. Mark's emphasis, in contrast, is on arming the beginning artist with the means to create his or her own cartoons from the ground up. For example, he advises, "cartoons don't perfect detail, but rather, suggest detail." Advice like this helps the budding cartoonist think like a professional. In addition, Mark's warm and witty sense of humor make for a enjoyable first, second, and third-time "reads." I really like it!
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Summary: Think Like a Cartoonist
Review: This is a great book for beginning cartoonists. Mark Heath's "Drawing Cartoons" is the first "how to draw" book to help me learn how to "think like a cartoonist." Most drawing books I've seen in the past give the reader step-by-step line drawings to copy. While this approach often results in a flashy finished-product for the reader, the beginning cartoonist is left without the "tools" for creating drawings from scratch, on his or her own. Mark's emphasis, in contrast, is on arming the beginning artist with the means to create his or her own cartoons from the ground up. For example, he advises, "cartoons don't perfect detail, but rather, suggest detail." Advice like this helps the budding cartoonist think like a professional. In addition, Mark's warm and witty sense of humor make for a enjoyable first, second, and third-time "reads." I really like it!
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Summary: Think Like a Cartoonist
Review: This is a great book for beginning cartoonists. Mark Heath's "Drawing Cartoons" is the first "how to draw" book to help me learn how to "think like a cartoonist." Most drawing books I've seen in the past give the reader step-by-step line drawings to copy. While this approach often results in a flashy finished-product for the reader, the beginning cartoonist is left without the "tools" for creating drawings from scratch, on his or her own. Mark's emphasis, in contrast, is on arming the beginning artist with the means to create his or her own cartoons from the ground up. For example, he advises, "cartoons don't perfect detail, but rather, suggest detail." Advice like this helps the budding cartoonist think like a professional. In addition, Mark's warm and witty sense of humor make for a enjoyable first, second, and third-time "reads." I really like it!
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Summary: Don't be afraid to make mistakes as a cartoonist
Review: When I wrote Drawing Cartoons, I had three things in mind: I wanted the beginning cartoonist to know that we all make mistakes (I make five in the course of the book -- that I know of -- which I pinpoint for your edification and amusement); we all have our own way of drawing, from the simple to the divine; and despite the license to indulge in any style, there are certain rules to heed if a clear and comprehensible cartoon is the goal (basic perspective, for example, and recognizable expressions; the graphic distinction between drawing a pleasing scent and a less-pleasing stench; the importance of letting the whole body describe an emotion, not just the face...) I'm a contributing editor with The Artist's Magazine, a magazine and greeting card artist, the publisher of a cartooning newsletter, and I continue to make mistakes. Don't hesitate to draw your first line. If it veers unexpectedly, you're in good company.
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