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Character Design

Cartooning is about communicating ideas and stories using pictures instead of words, and it’s the cartoonist’s job to keep the audience interested by creating compelling and memorable characters. In this book, you’ll learn how to design characters from start to finish through the use of shapes, lines, expressions, postures, props, and costumes. You’ll discover how to create drawings that will tell a reader all he or she needs to know about a character—from personality and emotional state to age and occupation—without the use of words. And whether you draw cartoons as a hobby or as a career (or both!), the lessons in this book ...

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