This fun, user-friendly guide by a successful professional cartoonist and comic-strip artist presents an abundance of valuable pointers that both beginning and experienced cartoonists will appreciate. Generously illustrated, its tips on techniques cover pen and brush handling, patterns, coloring, and attaining perspective. Drawing specifics include helpful hints on depicting animals and people of all shapes and ages, with special attention given

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"Caricature is a form of portraiture and, while they share the same goal to tell the viewer something about the subject, a standard portrait is essentially reportage or a recitation of facts where the caricature is a wacky story. The portrait tends to depict the reality of the subject where the caricature exaggerates those details to heighten the appearance and (very often) to make a statement or point about the subject. Understanding Caricature takes...