Blair's book on cartooning is something you can read again and again, taking something different from it each time. There's exactly one useless sentence in the entire book, where he says 'professional animators use some particular pencil'.
Hogarth's books are pretty stylized,too, in their own way - he really emphasizes musclulature, because that's what he's trying to teach, for the most part.
I can still remember when I made the connection between Blair and life drawing. It was like a light went on: OH! You can use the EXACT SAME TECHNIQUES to construct ANYTHING! Forties cartoon character or human being, IT DOESN'T MATTER!
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Date: 2003-03-05 03:19 pm (UTC)Hogarth's books are pretty stylized,too, in their own way - he really emphasizes musclulature, because that's what he's trying to teach, for the most part.
I can still remember when I made the connection between Blair and life drawing. It was like a light went on: OH! You can use the EXACT SAME TECHNIQUES to construct ANYTHING! Forties cartoon character or human being, IT DOESN'T MATTER!