Book Description: Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows beginning cartoonists, retro fans, and all other hipsters how to get that almost-1950s look in their drawings. His trademark step-by-step drawings and crystal-clear text are sure to make Saturday mornings more creative!
Want to Know How To Draw Retro? This Is Your Book!!! If you are looking to change your cartooning style or just want to learn how to draw "retro" styled cartoons, this is your book! Christopher Hart teaches you how to draw retro-styled cartoons by comparing the classic style and the retro style so you can pinpoint where you need to draw differently to achieve that retro look.
As always, a great learning guide for the beginner or the experienced cartoon artist.
Thank you Mr. Hart!!! This is another great title from Christopher Hart. In this book, he takes a look of some of the cartoons and animation that is popular today. This seems to be an era of the "retro" look and feel and Mr. Hart uses this book as a resouce to explore and teach these cool cartooning techniques!
Gift this book to yourself or the retro cartoon fan in your life!
A must have book You can't go wrong with this book. It really covers the subject matter completely.
Christoper Hart you did good!
Terrible book. Leave it be. Like all of Chris Hart's books, Cartoon Cool is filled with hack drawings and bad drawing advice. If you really want to draw in the Retro style, here's a tip: Go look at the cartoons and the artists that inspired the retro style in the first place. Ed Benedict, Mary Blair, M. Sasek, 50's era Hank Ketcham, Gene Dietch. These are the people that Craig McKracken and Genndy Tartokovsky and Lynne Naylor are inspired by. Google the names. You'll have a wealth of material at your finger tips. Here's another tip: REALLY learn how to draw things the way they really look. You can't abstract something unless you know what it looks like.
Great for young budding artists Great for 8-15 age range. Artwork is fun and isn't intimidating to novice drawers. I'm a little out of the target age range and target skill set in my opinion, but even still I did pick up some clear, concise, and insightful tidbits on the style. If anyone is looking for drawing books for their kids, I'd keep Christopher Hart's name in mind.
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