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Cartoon Cool: How to Draw New Retro-Style Characters

Cartoon Cool: How to Draw New Retro-Style CharactersAuthor: Christopher Hart
Brand: Random House
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 23 reviews
Sales Rank: 145479

Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.4

MPN: GKW41223
ISBN: 0823005879
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9780823005871
ASIN: 0823005879

Publication Date: March 24, 2005
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Product Description

How to Draw the New Retro Characters of Today's Cartoons!

Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes.

Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows beginning cartoonists, retro fans, and all other hipsters how to get that almost-1950s look in their drawings.

His trademark step-by-step drawings and crystal-clear text are sure to make Saturday mornings more creative!

Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages


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3 out of 5 stars not the worst book, but it's not good either   August 7, 2010
L. OROZCO
I learned that I shouldn't buy books by Christopher Hart. They are not really bad, but they aren't good either.
This book is basic. It's not really bad, as it has a few drawings you can use as basis to develop your own retro style.
It consists of a few quick how-to's with step by step drawings. But the end product isn't a great drawing.

Go watch Kim Possible, or go to deviantart and you'll find better resources than what this book offers.




1 out of 5 stars Junk. Junk. Junk.   January 1, 2010
Jerry Block (Anaheim, CA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful

Anybody tuned in, and turned on, by the old cubist, modernist UPA school of cartooning should avoid this amateurish dreck like the plague. For one thing, the hipper-than-thou text is incredibly annoying. Get this from your snooty author: "The retro family is a riot. Think of it as the quintessential 1960s sitcom family--but with each member suffering from Attention Deficit Order. Each family member is a turbo-charged nerd, self-centered in the extreme but with a weird patina of sugarcoating." That's the whole politically liberal tone of the book. It's not so much a celebration of Mid-Century art as a putdown of the 1950s and the family structure. Really weird. That could be acceptable if the art were any good. But it's garbage you wouldn't accept from a first-year student. It's an eyesore and way off the mark. Like a previous one-star review has noted, if you want to learn this kind of cartooning go to the original sources who had talent. Pick up the essential Cartoon Modern from Chronicle Books. It's chock-full of great art with informative text. Then study old UPA cartoons like Mister Magoo, and some of Ward Kimball's cartoons for Walt Disney. A good compilation would be Beer Commericals from Something Weird Video, which has great 30-second commericals from TV's early years. Retro artists like Shag and Derek Yaniger are current masters of this style. Chris Hart grinds out these crude books like sausage. Some are okay. Some belong in the round file. This is one of them.


3 out of 5 stars Good art book.   September 17, 2009
T. Paukune
I will admit, I hate most Christopher Hart books. But this one is quite unique. It's not trying to impersonate a style like anime or manga. It's reviving a very unique style of art referred to as "retro".

I love this book because this is definitely my style. But the style in this book (and some of the advice) is quite limiting. Cartoons like Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, and to a lesser extent Teen Titans the animated show really show off the retro style evolved to a great extent.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a unique style beyond anime, manga (which I happened to draw all the time before this book), and Marvel Comics.

But it definitely would be good to have a basic understanding of anatomy, since this book does not go into it really at all.


5 out of 5 stars Cartoon Cool   May 30, 2009
A.Volker (Petrópolis, Brazil)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Great examples of retro-style characters. Give detailed explanation on how to build up the character and create new ones.


5 out of 5 stars Want to Know How To Draw Retro? This Is Your Book!!!   April 22, 2008
Windy City Reader (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you are looking to change your cartooning style or just want to learn how to draw "retro" styled cartoons, this is your book! Christopher Hart teaches you how to draw retro-styled cartoons by comparing the classic style and the retro style so you can pinpoint where you need to draw differently to achieve that retro look.

As always, a great learning guide for the beginner or the experienced cartoon artist.

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