Cartooning Basics: 4th Edition

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Cartooning Basics: 4th Edition

JIM DAVIS creator of Garfield:

"Well, this is just great. After years of struggling to figure out how to draw hands and feet, Duane Barnhart Comes out with Cartooning Basics and makes it all look easy! ...Cartooning Basics is an entertaining read and a wonderful how-to for the beginning cartoonist or for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. ...What are you waiting for? Grab your paper and pencil and start having some fun?"

Cartooning Basics has drawing lessons on:

  • How to draw human expressions.
  • How to draw human characters at any angle
  • How to draw different ages for your cartoon characters
  • How to draw cartoon bodies
  • Create action characters
  • Easy techniques for drawing hands and feet
  • Draw cool costumes and create dozens of sure-fire poses.
  • CARTOON ANIMALS!
  • How to draw great dogs and puppies
  • How to draw fantastic cartoon cats
  • How to draw horses
  • Draw cool dinosaurs
  • Creating silly farm animals
  • Drawing wwild animals
  • Making space ailens
  • Drawing wacko monsters and robots
  • Creating your own cool comic strips
  • Making your own cartoon flip books and animation
  • 3D effects with cool perspective
  • You will also learn cool cartooning facts, history, trivia, and more!!!
Scroll down for samples
of what's inside CARTOONING BASICS!

cartoon horse drawing

HUNDREDS of cool easy to follow drawing lessons and characters!

Bean Poses: Shows how to make characters using bean shapes

Learn easy ways to make figures. Pages are packed with plenty of cool examples.

Monster poses

By using a few simple shapes, you'll draw monsters space aliens, robots and much more!

Alien in flying saucer

Here's one of those aliens now!

2-part Animation


Learn ANIMATION the easy way!.

How to draw a girl lesson

You'll be creating characters of all ages and expressions in no time flat!

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Draw cartoon dinosaurs using easy to draw shapes!

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