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    Learn to Draw Comics
    Learn to Draw Comics
    Learn to Draw Comics
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    Learn to Draw Comics

    By George Leonard Carlson

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    This user-friendly guide from the 1930s offers aspiring cartoonists a wealth of practical advice. Rich in period flavor, it supplies the ageless foundations of comic art. Abundant illustrations and clear, nontechnical prose cover: creating expressions, attaining proportion and applying perspective, depicting anatomy, simple shading, achieving consistency, lettering, and writing a strip.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 13, 2012
    ISBN9780486163406
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    How to Begin and What to Use

    TO PRODUCE good work, the student-cartoonist should have, besides enthusiasm and a desire to learn, suitable working equipment. The few materials needed should be of good quality, and the place in which to work, comfortable and practical.

    The source of light should come from the left, (unless one is left-handed), to avoid unnecessary shadows on your work. Any good steady table will serve if you lack a professional drawing table, and a drawing-board (23x31 inches or smaller) should be of soft pine so the work can be tacked on easily.

    For finished pen work use a smooth-surfaced Bristol board of 2 or 3 ply thickness and for pencil and practice work, good smooth typewriting paper. Use medium soft grade pencils, free from grit, and keep them nicely pointed by means of a sandpaper block. A soft eraser or Art-Gum cleans pencil lines easily, while a sharp knife or hard ink eraser is needed to correct pen-work. Ball-point and Falcon No. 1 pens are best suited for outline and general work, while the Gillott No. 404, No. 303, No. 170, and No. 290 are for medium to very fine lines (in order named). Have a good comfortable pen-holder for each grade pen and use only a dead BLACK waterproof India drawing ink, as ordinary writing ink will not reproduce.

    Large spaces of black can be filled in with a good sable or camel’s-hair brush (size 3 or 4). Pen wipers, thumb-tacks, a 24-inch T-square and an inch-ruler practically completes your equipment.

    Besides continual pencil practice which helps one to get into the swing of drawing easily in pen and ink, a free and easy manner of working also depends greatly on how you hold your pen. The above diagram shows the correct as well as a cramped way of holding it. Some simple line exercises will be best to start with, so study the various styles shown, and do them several times in order to accustom yourself to the use of the pen. Use the kind of pen most suitable, holding it correctly and turning the paper at whatever angle is most comfortable.

    Do not labor over a line. Draw with confidence and acquire a moderate speed, but not at the expense of accuracy. Keep on practicing these lines until you feel you can do them perfectly. In drawing outline figures, strive for uniform lines, whether extremely thick or thin, as in examples shown above.

    Sketching familiar objects is valuable memory training. First, draw something from life, and, after a day or so, draw the same thing entirely from memory, comparing it with your first sketch. This cultivates power of observation, which, to the cartoonist is invaluable.

    Drawings are, as a rule, made larger than they actually appear in print, so it will therefore be practical to get into the habit of making your drawings fairly large, to get accustomed to this way of working.

    If, as part of your study, you may wish to make an enlarged copy of a picture, there are two practical ways of doing it, the one being with squares. First enlarge the dimensions as shown above. Next, rule an equal number of squares on both small picture and your drawing paper, which, on the latter are larger. Then, copy the contents of one square at a time and get a correctly proportioned copy.

    Another practical method of making enlarged or reduced

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