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1: Expressions
Use these expressions on people and animal characters. Mix and match the different features for even more cool expressions! Don't forget to add noses.

2: Bodies
These body poses (gesture drawings) are a good starting point for building your character. The stick figure poses on the top of the handout are more complex and the "bean shapes" on easier for beginners to draw.

3: Hands & Feet
Hands and feet can be a real challenge for the beginning cartoonist. This handout gives you construction techniques and a few good examples to copy.

4: Animals

This handout has a selection of animals from Cartooning Basics. Smaller images next to each animal provide the shapes needeed to draw that animal.

5: Symbols
No cartoon is compete without movement lines, thought and speech balloons, splashes, shading and more. This handout will show how many of the cartoon symbols are used.

6: Idea Starters
Once you learn to create characters, then you need a story to make things happen. This idea starter works for generating jokes and scenes. Just match the character with a situation and add to the list to make even more stories.

7: Single Panel Cartoon
A standard template to make your own single panel cartoons. Don't forget to sign your name on the inside of the panel

8: Cartoon Strip Page
Pre made squares for two-three panel comic strips or a six panel comic stirp. Draw in pencil first then trace the drawing in black ink. Finally erase the pencil lines.

9: Comic Book Page
Make multiple copies of this page and have your characters act out their scenes in your own comic book. Have fun!

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Here's what Jim Davis, Creator of Garfield has to say about Cartooning Basics
"Well, this is just great. After years of struggling to figure out how to draw hands and feet, Duane Barnhart Comes out with Cartooning Basics and makes it all look easy! ...Cartooning Basics is an entertaining read and a wonderful how-to for the beginning cartoonist or for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. ...What are you waiting for? Grab your paper and pencil and start having some fun?"

Over 900 illustrations!

Here's a sample of what's new...

Learn to draw this Wacko Horse. It's fun and easy!

"I didn't even wait 'til I got home! Duane Barnhart's Cartooning Basics is so fun, so irresistible, so empowering to a drawing-novice like me, that I began to experiment immediately and am still at it. He has found the delicate balance of great teaching&emdash;a gentle encouraging beginning for people at any skill level, and excellent quality to challenge me for years to come. Wham! Pow! Thanks Duane for getting me started so well in a new art form."
Eric Booth
Faculty of Juilliard and The Kennedy Center.
Frequent keynote speaker and consultant to arts programs around the country.

Cartooning Basics, Fourth Edition, 8.5 x 11", 88 pages, lam/full color cover, b/w inside, perfect bound, over 900 illustrations, ISBN: 0-9657136-4-4, Retail: $12.99.

Learn a new way to make figures using a simple bean shape.

"Cartooning Basics strikes a perfect balance between the "how-to" of drawing cartoons and the "aha!" if generating creative ideas for cartooning. Going beyond step-by-step copying, Duane Barnhart, provides kids with the techniques and inspiration needed to be their own original and skilled cartoon artists. I wanted to grab a pencil and go!"
Susan Rotilie
Program Manager for School Programs
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

Draw monsters space aliens, robots and much more!

Gr. 5-8. The Barnharts, artists both (Duane is a professional cartoonist), have added 400 new illustrations to this edition of their cartooning primer, first published in 1997. A lot of kids will skip the illustrated cartoon time line...and go right to the technical stuff, appropriately introduced by a cartoon character called No. 2 (as in No. 2 pencil). Step-by-step directions for drawing heads--straight-on, in profile, and looking up, down, and sideways--lead off, followed by tips on creating facial expressions, body poses, hand movements, and several popular animals, along with hints on putting together single-panel cartoons and strips...kids (even teens and adults) who want guidance in traditional cartooning and character development will find solid instruction, encouragement, and loads of inspiration and examples to copy.
Stephanie Zvirin -
Booklist November 2004
American Library Association

Here's one of those aliens now!

Cartooning Basics is an award-winning, step-by-step cartooning guidebook for doodlers age 7 and up. Though the simple illustrations and plain-terms instructions are readily accessible to young people, they are equally instructive to amateur adults seeking to hone their cartooning skills and learn how to create cartoon characters. Now in an enlarged and revised format with a foreword by Jim Davis, creator of "Garfield", Cartooning Basics covers how to get ideas for 'toons, common symbols, especial tips for expressions and facial features, showing distance, depth, and perspective, and much more, while the many, many illustrations demonstrate how all cartoons begin as a collection of simple shapes, from which details are elaborated. Highly recommended for practicing artistic techniques or just plain drawing fun.
October 30, 2004
Midwest Book Review

Learn easy techniques for making your own two part "flip-its" and animated flip books

"My seven year old daughter received this book as a gift and just loves it! She has never felt very comfortable in her artistic abilities and this book has provided her with the instruction she needed to build up her confidence. She practices with the book almost daily and now insists on making everyone's birthday cards using characters out of the book and ones she has created on her own. It was such a great gift that we now give it as a gift; along with a pad of drawing paper, a fun pencil and an eraser, it is always a big hit!"
Dave D (Seattle, WA)

We've kept all of the great stuff from earlier editions.

You'll still learn how to make characters of all ages and expressions

You'll draw all of your old dinosaur friends and meet a bunch of new ones as well!

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Cartooning Basics

1: Expressions Use these expressions on people and animal characters. Mix and match the different features for even more cool expressions! Don't forget to add noses.
2: Bodies These body poses (gesture drawings) are a good starting point for building your character. The stick figure poses on the top of the handout are more complex and the "bean shapes" on easier for beginners to draw.

3: Hands & Feet Hands and feet can be a real challenge for the beginning cartoonist. This handout gives you construction techniques and a few good examples to copy.
4: Animals This handout has a selection of animals from *Cartooning Basics*. Smaller images next to each animal provide the shapes needeed to draw that animal.

5: Symbols No cartoon is compete without movement lines, thought and speech balloons, splashes, shading and more. This handout will show how many of the cartoon symbols are used.
6: Idea Starters Once you learn to create characters, then you need a story to make things happen. This idea starter works for generating jokes and scenes. Just match the character with a situation and add to the list to make even more stories.

7: Single Panel Cartoon A standard template to make your own single panel cartoons. Don't forget to sign your name on the inside of the panel
8: Cartoon Strip Page Pre made squares for two-three panel comic strips or a six panel comic stirp. Draw in pencil first then trace the drawing in black ink. Finally erase the pencil lines.