Posts Tagged ‘Professional Cartoonist’
December 29th, 2008 | 
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User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A great guide to cartooning!
My daughter absolutely loves this book and it improved her cartoons right away! I like the variety of different possible features presented. This is a beatiful, very well done book.
Christine Mitchell, author and illustrator of:
Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond
5 Stars GREAT BLEND OF INSTRUCTION AND INSPIRATION
This is unlike any other cartooning book past or present. Too many cooks of this genre show you the standard “draw an oval and a triangle and now you have a duck!” or “draw like I do!” instructions. Art Roche’s book teaches kids to think, to imagine, to be funny. Art gives readers the tools to pursue their styles, not his. It’s an easy read, full of great illustrations, and humorous examples. Art Roche makes anyone from from 4 to 84 want to pick up a pencil and have fun! Great gift for any kid or kid at heart.
5 Stars Art For Kids: The Only Cartooning Book You’ll Ever Need to Be tThe Atist You’ve Always Wanted To Be
Beautiful Book. Purchased for my 9 year old grandaughter as a Christmas Present. She loves to draw and wants to be a cartoonist. I know she will love this book. So easy to understand!
5 Stars Sharpen those pencils
My 12-year-old picked up this book and devoured it in one sitting, reporting it helped him conquer some of the problems he had encountered as a recreational cartoonist. He especially enjoyed the section devoted to writing.
This is a gorgeous book – hardcover with color on every page. Great art, lively text, and very inspiring – it works as both a “how-to” and personal cartooning cheerleader.
5 Stars Art Roche: God of Cartooning and Rock & Roll
You want to draw cartoons? Why wait? Start learning the important fundamentals from one of the best in the biz. A giant among pygmies — that’s Just the Way It Is (and Bruce Hornsby agrees with me, so there!)
Why spend more money learning some OTHER system that will only result in your work looking like everybody elses? Do you really think someone is going to pay you to draw so-so copies of Japanese Anime? Get real, Get this book, shmucko. With a little effort (we remember effort, right?) and dedication, the sky’s the limit.
Do the right thing and start tuning in to what makes you unique — after all, we can SELL that!!! Roche is the Real Thing, and his work speaks volumes. Your eyes don’t lie to you, and neither will Mr. Roche.
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Get out your number 2 pencils! Bruce Blitz, professional cartoonist, television personality, and all-around enthusiastic guy, is going to teach you how to draw! The Big Book of Cartooning is a fun, comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the basic techniques of cartooning. In his Big Book, Blitz explains the process of drawing cartoons with detailed chapters that cover everything from the selection of paper and pencils to sketching animals and portraits. And don’t worry if it doesn’t turn out right the first time–Blitz’s optimistic style and encouraging words will help smooth over the rough spots. In the forward, Bil Keane, syndicated cartoonist and creator of “The Family Circus,” writes, “It is a brilliant compilation of the many basic aspects of drawing, simplified and presented in a breezy, entertaining style.” Whether you’re a budding young artist or an old dog still scratching out stick people, The Big Book of Cartooning can help you sketch more interesting and expressive pictures. Reading this book won’t necessarily turn you into the next Gary Larson, but with a little guidance from Bruce Blitz and a lot of practice, you could be drawing better cartoons in no time! –George Laney
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars AMAZING
The book was better than I expected, and arrived before I expected it to.
Great buy. Thanks. 
5 Stars I Can Draw Cartoons!
This book is so much fun. I’m a digital artist and use Illustrator as my tool. I learned so many techniques from this book. The pictures are big and bold and the author teaches without making you feel like a novice.
5 Stars Great buy!
I bought this book for my husband and he loves it. He is constantly drawing little pictures for me. It will certainly bring out the inner artist in you. This book is easy to follow along with.
4 Stars Very good
A casual glance through this book originally made me think it looked too cutesy and not what I wanted. I’ll still say that too many of his characters and examples are cutesy, and rather stilted. But there’s a lot of excellent material here. I found several tips that I (so far) haven’t seen in several other books. I’ve had several nagging questions: Exactly how do I get things done? How is a finished cartoon created? On what size and kind of paper, using what tools? Blitz walks you through all of that stuff. The section on drawing backgrounds and perspective was also really handy.
I’d say this is the single best book I’ve seen to get started on cartooning. Even if you want to draw some other, very different style (like, some kind of dark Batman comic or something), if you have little or no cartooning experience, this book will be helpful.
5 Stars A Great Book
I don’t consider my self to possess any artistic abilities when it comes to drawing. I wanted to enter a contest on YouTube where I had to draw pictures of things. I got this book. Followed the easy to use instructions, drew my pictures, entered the contest and won the $5,000 grand prize. I would definitely say I got my money’s worth from this book and much much more. Highly recommended.