Famous Artists Cartoon Course: Kids
Famous Artists Cartoon Course: Kids is a digital PDF lesson about drawing children for cartooning. It covers proportions, movement, facial features, age groups, and comic characterization. This digital download is available for instant download after purchase.
The lesson presents practical observations for artists who want to draw children as active, distinctive characters rather than as small adults.
Its examples move from babies and young children to teenagers, with attention to physical development, behavior, clothing, speech, hobbies, and comic action.
Book Overview
Famous Artists Cartoon Course: Kids is an art instruction lesson by Famous Artists. It focuses on representing children in cartoons and comic strips through observation, proportion, gesture, expression, and age-specific details.
The course explains that children have different proportions from adults. It also describes how their movements, interests, language, clothing, and relationships with the adult world can provide material for comic storytelling.
The opening page displays the names Rube Goldberg, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Harry Haenigsen, Willard Mullin, Gurney Williams, Dick Cavalli, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Virgil Partch, and Barney Tobey.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- How children’s head, face, neck, arms, legs, hands, and feet differ at various ages.
- General cartoon proportions for babies and children from infancy through twelve years.
- Ways to exaggerate proportion for comic effect while retaining a recognizable age.
- How movement, playground observation, clothing, pets, and props support believable kid characters.
- Characteristics of children aged five to eight and nine to twelve, including curiosity, hobbies, action, and comic behavior.
- How teenagers change physically, socially, and stylistically from thirteen through seventeen.
- The use of children as secondary characters and psychological contrasts in comic stories.
Why This Book Matters
This lesson treats children as active human characters with individual reactions, interests, and personalities. It connects accurate observation with the expressive exaggeration expected in cartooning.
Its age-by-age comparisons give artists a clear visual framework for drawing children at different stages of development. The discussion of comic strips also shows how children can add humor, warmth, and movement to stories.
Book Details
| Author | Famous Artists |
|---|---|
| Title | Famous Artists Cartoon Course: Kids |
| Location | Westport, Connecticut |
| Copyright | © 1956, 1965 Famous Artists |
| Lesson | Lesson 1 |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 35.0 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 36746293 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 15 |
| Pages Analyzed Locally | 10 |
| Native Text Pages | 0 |
| Locally OCR-Read Pages | 10 |
| Unreadable Pages | 0 |
| Text Compacted | False |
| Original Filename | Famous_artists_cartoon_Course_-_17_kids.pdf |
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The PDF can be opened with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading or PDF apps.
FAQ
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