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Showing posts with label Cartooning. Show all posts
Fleischer Studio style Mouth Charts from 1939's "How to Draw Animated Cartoons" Book
Tips on animating dialog from 1939's "How to Draw Animated Cartoons" by Edward F. Hopper and Screen Cartoon Studios. Dig those crazy Fleischer Studio style mouth shapes!
The Simplest and Easiest Way to Draw Comic Faces -- from 1923 W.L. Evans School of Cartooning brochure
More on W. L. Evans and his vintage lessons on how to draw cartoons, visit http://animationresources.org/education-w-l-evans-course-brochure/
“Tack’s Cartoon Tips for the Aspiring Cartoonist” (1923) Vintage Book on How to Draw Cartoons
Brand-new high-res scans from “Tack’s Cartoon Tips for the Aspiring Cartoonist” (1923) — I’ll be posting the whole book on my “How to Draw Cartoons” page at https://www.facebook.com/CartoonTips
"Popeye's How to Draw Cartoons" (1939) Complete scans from a great cartooning book
I love collecting old "How to Draw Cartoons" books, and this one is among my favorites: "Popeye's How to Draw Cartoons" by Joe Musial from 1939. I finally got a giant scanner, so now I can share this really fun vintage cartooning book!
The thumbnail below gives you just a hint of what's inside; There's about 40 full-sized pages of classic cartoon art and "How to draw cartoons" instruction. Click on the picture to jump to the photo album.
or you can find it here: http://bit.ly/PopeyeCartooningBook
The Great Willard Mullin -- Baseball Illustration from The Sporting News
An amazing piece of original art spotted on eBay. Original art by Willard Mullin -- the greatest sports cartooonist in the history of journalism. This piece appeared in The Sporting News and was originally titled "Happy Hangover."
Starting off with a detail shot to appreciate the scope...Willard Mullin beautifully creates a Lilliputean scene of big-time baseball owners brushing a bunch of players off their coats like so many annoying fleas.
Here's the "big picture" in all its glory...a breathtaking symphony of gestural cartoon art.
More mind-blowing detail shots below...
Willard Mullin Link-Fest:
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Thanks to Leif Peng's Today's Inspiration blog for:
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...and check out these terrific posts on Will Finn's blog featuring
scans from the book, "Clowning Through Baseball":
scans from the book, "Clowning Through Baseball":
More Vintage Articles on Cartooning and Animation
Last week I posted about the Modern Mechanix magazine archive -- a nifty treasure chest of vintage magazine articles about cartoons. “How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes” was just the start of the goodies…There are a lot more where that one came from!
Real Scenery for Popeye…all about the Fleischer Studios and their 3-d rotating sets
These articles from magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Popular Science and Modern Mechanix give a perspective on the art and industry of animation and cartooning that really shows how excited people were about cartoons and the advancements in animation during the early twentieth century.
Sound Tricks of Mickey Mouse… a look at the Walt Disney Studios groundbreaking work in sound cartoons
Making of a Funny…a look at the production process of Bringing Up Father by George McManus
What Makes Mickey Mouse Move?
How Disney Combines Living Actors with His Cartoon Characters
Nutty Inventions Paid Me a Million by Rube Goldberg
The Making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
All of these articles are scanned and posted in multiple resolutions, so you can read them on screen or download high-resolution images to print or look at later!
If you missed that post about the 1933 feature, “How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes,” from the Modern Mechanix blog, just click on the image below…
1933: How Comic Cartoons Make Fortunes – Vintage Magazine Scans
The Modern Mechanix blog reprints many great illustrated articles from the 1930’s and 40’s. One of my favorites is this look at Depression-era income opportunities in cartooning and animation!
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/19/how-comic-cartoons-make-fortunes/
Click on any of the thumbnails below
to open up a crisp and clear high-resolution scan
Click on any of the thumbnails below
to open up a crisp and clear high-resolution scan
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ALL of these pages are available to download at SUPER-SIZE over at
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/19/how-comic-cartoons-make-fortunes/
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/19/how-comic-cartoons-make-fortunes/
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…and aside from the great article, check out all the beautiful advertisements on these pages.
PS…there are MANY more articles on cartoons and cartooning and animation at the Modern Mechanix blog. Just click HERE to jump right over!
“Tremendous Urgent Demand for Cartoonists” and other Vintage Art and Cartooning School Ads
“Regardless of how little you know about cartooning now, you can easily qualify
for a position in this attractive,
high-salaried business.”
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“New Method Makes Cartooning
Astonishingly Easy to Learn!”
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”Enjoy the fascinating life of a successful cartoonist – easy hours, freedom from routine, your own boss, and $3,000 to $15,000 a year for this work that is play!”
…and that’s in 1925 dollars! Sign me up!
…and see more ads like this at:
How to Draw Cartoons the "Old-School Way" by animator Bill Nolan
A couple years ago, our pals at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive scanned in this "how-to-draw" book by animation pioneer William C. Nolan: "Cartooning Self-Taught"
Update: seems like all the old links to the Archive site are broken, so I'm posting all the images right here until they return to the Asifa Archive blog.
Bill Nolan is one of the hugest unsung heroes and animation -- is often credited with creating the rubber hose style of cartoons. It was Bill Nolan that helped Otto Messmer refine Felix the Cat into the bouncy, round, cartoony character that he became in the mid-20s.
I just love the giant hands on all these characters, reminding me of Bud Fisher's Mutt& Jeff, Elzie C. Segar's Thimble Theater (Popeye) and George Herriman's Stumble Inn. It's kinda strange how different decades have different cartooning styles. I wouldn't mind at all if this old-timey "bigfoot" style started to make a comeback!
This book is a quick survey of the most basic building blocks of how to draw cartoon characters: There are different mini lessons on how to draw the head, hands, feet, full figures, action poses, animals and kids. Like a lot of books of this type, it doesn't go into great detail, but it's fun for what it is!
“Make Big Money - Become an Artist” 1950’s Correspondence Art & Cartooning School Ads
“Make Big Money - Become an Artist”
“No Skill Needed!”
“Plastic template with cut-out spaces and holes lets you make over 200 different cartoons”
“Be popular – wow your friends!”
…and see more ads like this at:
http://bit.ly/MasterCartooningAtHome
and http://bit.ly/AnimatorsNeeded
and http://bit.ly/HiddenTalent
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