BG Painting

Background Painting 1 - Kristy Gordon

BG Painting 2: Art Lozzi, Original Flintstones Titles, organized tasteful techniques

BG painting 3 Art Lozzi- scooter looter-paint technique-

BG Painting 4 / Color Theory- Art Lozzi explains some technique

BG Painting 4 Styles Compared

BG Painting 5 - Hep Cat - Can Funny Cartoons Be Beautiful?

Color Theory 14 - Painting: HB Holes and Ruff N Reddy

BG Painting - Jetsons 85 Backgrounds

ART Lozzi BG painting textures/ theme park water colors

My Crappy BG paintings-Big House Blues

Painting Technique - Scott Wills

Some Nice Paintings Of Woody

Pebbles and Bamm Bamm paintings

BGS: Layout, Color Key, Finished Painting

This series is mostly about brush techniques - as opposed to color combinations. I'll do a separate post just about color combinations.

Cartoons With Great BGS

Color Theory

These posts are about color combinations, not about painting technique, which is different.

Color Theory 1 for Cartoons- Garish versus Warm

Color Theory 2 - good color without a lot of money - Art Lozzi HB

Color Theory 3 - neutral or natural colors

Color Theory 4: Pee and Poo colors versus Colorful Greys

Color Theory 5 - eye relief

Color Theory 6 - Montealegre - Lion Hearted Huck

Color Theory 7 - color isolated from detailed technique-Yogi Bear "High Fly Guy", 1958

Color Theory 8 - Art Lozzi - Snorkasaurus Hunter - salmon morning

Color Theory 9 - BG Color: Donald's Diary

Color Theory 10 - Funny Bunny and the technique of Soft Fuzzy Fur

Color Theory 11 - Mel Crawford's Secret Color Sense

Color Theory 12 - Happy Colors

Color Theory 12 - J.P. Miller, Painter of Warmth

Color Theory 13 - Ranger Walks 6 and 7 . building specific variations from a general Idea

Color Theory 14 - Painting: HB Holes and Ruff N Reddy

Color Theory 15 - Follow Up To An Important Concept

Color Reference, Mary Blair etc.

MARY BLAIR BOOKS

Writing For Cartoons

writing for cartoons 1

Writing for cartoons 2 - Skills You Need: Be a Cartoonist First

Clarity - Screenwriting 2 - Obligatory Cave Origins

Writing For Cartoons 3 : P.O.V., Ideas, Sincerity

Writing For Cartoons 4 - Ideas: The Origin Of Cecils

Writing for Cartoons 5 - Humor, Structure: Nurse Stimpy Outline

Writing for Cartoons 5a: animation: Keep it simple and short! Misconceptions of animation "writers"

Writing 5b - Don't Write Too Much

Writing for Cartoons 6 - Spelling, Grammar, Clarity : The Boy Who Cried Rat Outline

Writing For Cartoons 7 - Continuity, Personality

Writing For Cartoons 8 - Writing Gruntspeak

Writing For Cartoons 8a: More Gruntspeak - Boo Boo woos Cindy Bear

writing for cartoons 9 - Dialogue

Writing For Cartoons 10: Real Dialogue versus Cartoon Writer Dialogue -On Dangerous Ground

Writing For Character, rather than plugging characters into a generic plot