Christopher Hart’s Doodletopia Cartoons: Draw, Design, and
Color your own super-fun cartoon creations Is “your first stop in this paradise
of creativity?” “The world of cartoons. Your tour guide Christopher Hart is
ready to introduce you to the interactive, artistic possibilities of creation
your own exciting, hilarious, off-the-wall cartoon characters, gags and more.”
The author starts you with an introduction and warm up
exercises then goes on to show you how to fill in the silhouette all the way to
completing the cartoons. All through the book he gives advice and hints to make
your drawings successful. He makes his instructions clear and easy to
understand. Most of the left hand sides of the book are the instructions and
hint pages. And the right hand side of the book is practice pages to practice
and draw illustrations. He goes step by step through the process so that anyone
can be successful.
The majority portion of the book focuses on drawings of
people or animals but the last section gives instructions on cartoon
lettering. If you or someone you know
would like to learn how to draw cartoon characters this would be a good book to
start with. The drawings may be advanced for younger children but if you have a
preteen or teen I believe they could easily follow this book. I plan on keeping
this book and adding it to my art curriculum for home schooling in the
future. It is very nicely done. The paper
quality is nice and thick. It is definitely
a quality book.
The book description also eludes to the fact it includes “doodling”
I’m not sure that doodling is an accurate description because in my opinion it
is more cartoon drawing and not much in the way of what I would describe as a
doodle. You may feel like drawing a figure doodling I feel more like it is just
designs. So I will leave that up to interpretation.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn
cartoon drawings. You can purchase this book here.
