Cartooning for Kids - Softcover

Lightfoot, Marge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897066260 ISBN 13: 9781897066263

Publisher: Owlkids, 2005

Synopsis

Pick up a pencil and join in the fun!
Cartooning for Kids is the perfect book for kids who love cartoons and comics and want to create their very own. With timeless tricks of the trade and tips for beginners, this book has become a perennial bestseller. A vibrant new cover refreshes this popular staple of the children’s section.
With inspiring energy and easy-to-follow steps, Marge Lightfoot presents the basics of sketching people, animals, superheroes, and scenery. Budding cartoonists will have rewarding results as they create characters who run, jump, and zoom across their pages. Whatever children can imagine, this book will guide them toward making the invisible not only visible, but full of movement, color, texture, and emotion.
Colorfully illustrated by Lightfoot herself, Cartooning for Kids is sure to motivate young artists to tell stories, develop a sense of artistic expression, and, most of all, have fun!

About this title

About the Author

Marge Lightfoot
Contributor residences (city, state or country if outside the US or Canada): British Columbia

Marge Lightfoot is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. She studied graphic design and communications and has also taught cartooning for both children and adults. Cartooning for Kids is her first book. Marge Lightfoot lives near Vancouver.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5-A useful addition to art collections. Although the format is somewhat cluttered and frenetic in presentation, the information is not duplicated in the popular books on the subject by Ed Emberly and Lee Ames. Children are given suggestions on how to break down human and animal figures into geometric forms, and how to show movement and gesture. Other chapters discuss adding texture and color, placing characters in a setting; sequencing frames; doing simple lettering; using differing perspective; and creating cards, books, and stories. What sets this book apart from many of the other how-to guides is that it does more than just provide drawings to copy. It also encourages readers to observe their surroundings and to use their own creativity to express their humorous ideas.
Alexandra Marris, Rochester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Owlkids
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1897066260
• ISBN 13: 9781897066263
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 64