The Preston Blair Book

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You will need this essential book on the basics of cartoon drawing.

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Drawing Toys For Better Understanding

Toy Drawing 1: Top Cat Turnaround Toy Construction Exercise

Toy Drawing 2: Top Cat Studies

Toy Drawing 3 - Advanced -Knickerbocker toys - Jinks

Toy Drawing 4: Did Anyone Do Jinks?

Toy Drawing 5: Popeye Toy Turnaround

Toy Drawing 6: Reader Popeye Studies

Toy Drawing 7: John (not me) Is A Good Man

Toy Drawing 8: Don't Forget The Space Behind the Face

Toy Drawing 9: Puffy Yogi- a drawing challenge

Toy Drawing 10: How To Draw Porky

Toy Drawing 11: Observation VS Rote Animation Cartoon Style

Toy Drawings and Bobbleheads

Cartoon College

Cartoon College Year 1: My Ideal Cartoon School

Cartoon College Year 2

Cartoon College Year 3

L.O. 6: Analyze and Check your Layout against the storyboard. a sample lesson from secret cartoon college - using words to analyze an image

Cartoon College for Free

Some Results From Cartoon College

Preston Blair Lessons: Fundamentals of Animation Drawing

Animation School lesson 1/ CONSTRUCTION/ The Head

Animation School Lesson 2 -Squash and Stretch on heads

Animation School Lesson 3 - how to check your copies-PROPORTION

Animation School Lesson 4 - 2 legged characters-full body

Animation School Lesson 5 - Line Of Action, Silhouettes

Animation School Lesson 5a - Hands

Animation School 7 - When Generic is a Good Thing

Animation School Lesson 7: Combining Construction With Clear Silhouettes

Animation School 8 - Proportions affect design-Contrasts

Animation School. Lesson 9: Model sheets/Steve's gift to young cartoonists who thirst for knowledge

ANIMATION SCHOOL LESSON 9A - TOM AND JERRY AGAIN

Animation School Lesson 10 - Copy Old Cartoons and learn from the best

Animation School 11: Getting Back To The Primal Needs Of A Cartoonist

Animation School Lessons 12: Head Mechanics and Hierarchy

Animation School 13: Classic Animation Principles and Hierarchy Applied To Stylized Drawing

Animation School 14: Toot Head Construction

Animation School 15: Review: Drawing With All The Animation Drawing Principles Only

Private Lessons?

Amid suggested I do what Bill Plympton, Dick Williams and others are doing. Offer private classes to cartoonists.

He said somthing like 8-10 2 hour lectures and instruction for maybe $1500. (Still a lot cheaper than animation colleges)

I doubted here would be that many people in my area who would wanna do that.

let me know what you think.

The lessons on the bg are good for being free, but you do learn a lot more when someone goes over your drawings in person.

Disney Principles

Disney Principles 1: Of Animation

Disney Principles 2 - Solid Drawing 1

Disney Principles 2a - Solid Elmer - McKimson - Head Rotations

Disney Principles 2b - Bugs' Death 2 - Solid Drawing - adding perspective

Disney Principles 3 - "Twins" - a bad thing

Disney Principles 4 - Appeal 1 -

Disney Principles 4a - Appeal - 2 - Big Eyes

Disney Principles 5 - "Pliable" or "Organic"

Disney Principles 6 - Staging -1 - Clarity

Disney Principles 6a - Staging 2 - examples to compare and contrast

Disney Principles 6b - Staging 2 - For Mood

Disney Principles 6c - Staging 3 - Make your poses read well

Disney Principles 7 - Anticipations

Disney Principles 7a - How Would You Anticipate This Action?

Disney Principles 8 -Straight Ahead VS Pose to Pose - Disney Principles

Composition

COMPOSITION 1 - For Layout and BG artists - part 1 - Framing

Composition 2 - Intersection

COMPOSITION 3 For Layout and BG artists - Clear Staging

Composition 4 - Staging Groups Of Characters

Composition 5 - EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CONCEPT! Negative VS Positive space

Composition 6- Avoid The Middle, Asymmetry is more natural and interesting

Composition 7 - compose your poses together - also very important!

COMPOSITION 8 For Layout and BG artists - form over detail, lettering, study other artists

COMPOSITION 9 For Layout and BG artists - study other artists

Composition 11 -The Eager Beaver (1946) - functional & beautiful layouts

Composition 12 - Clutter VS Composition

Composition 13 - Harvey Eisenberg Compositions

Composition 13: Dick Shaw

Composition 14 - More Toot On Other Blogs

Composition 15 - Jim Smith Treats

Layout-Composition 16 , the Big Picture Designed Owen Fitzgerald

More Great Kurtzman - Pigtales composition 17

Frazetta Caricatures Composition 18

Uncle Remus Golden Book composition 19

More Rare Milt Gross! That's My Pop!- composition 20

Layout Question - Composition 21

More BG Layout Notes - HIERARCHY of Form and Composition

Mort Drucker Compositions/Layouts

Kurtzman and Composition

More Handsome Cartoon Compositions - helpful to layout artists

How to tell if your staging and composition is clear

Good Compositions Take Self Control

Hierarchy and Composition - Try drawing this