Harry Hamernik - Cartoonimals: How To Draw Amazing Cartoon Animals

cartoonimals How to Draw
Amazing
Cartoon Animals Harry Hamernik www.Impact-books.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harry Hamernik, author of the popular IMPACT book Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits, spent over seven years teaching drawing for SeaWorld, LEGOLAND, Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and King's Island. He has taught at the Art Academy of Los Angeles, Orange County Art Studios and is currently a full-time faculty member for the Art Institute of California in San Diego in the animation department. He has drawn many different types of subjects over the course of his career and recently designed the Sneed, Troggles, Snow Squirrel and Stoat for www.candyclaus.com. Hamernik lives in California with his wife and two daughters. Visit his website at www.hamernikartstudios.com. Copyright 2008 by Harry Hamernik. Copyright 2008 by Harry Hamernik.

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Box 704, S. Windsor NSW, 2756 Australia Tel: (02) 45773555 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hamernik, Harry
Cartoonimals / Harry Hamernik.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-60061-114-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Animals in art. 2.

Cartooning--Technique. 3. Drawing-
Technique. I. Title.
NC1764.8.A54H36 2008
741.5'362--dc22 2008021161 eISBN: 978-1-44031-710-1 EDITED BY SARAH LAICHAS
DESIGNED BY JENNIFER HOFFMAN
PRODUCTION COORDINATED BY MATT WAGNER

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to recognize and acknowledge my wifeshe is the reason I get things done. Thank you for your patience and motivating me to complete this book.

Thank you to Pam Wissman, my acquisitions editor at F+W Publications, for giving me a chance to write and draw for IMPACT Books. Thank you to my editors Mona Micheal and Sarah Laichas for your flexibility throughout the whole process. Lastly, thank you to everyone at IMPACT Books who works so hard to make books like mine successful. DEDICATION To my loving wife and beautiful kids for all the time they gave up for me to write and draw this book. Adobe and Adobe Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe System Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe product screen shots reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Contents introduction E verything you need to know about drawing cartoon animals has been included in this book. First, I want to go over two important concepts that you must understand before you begin drawing cartoonimals: the sphere and the ellipse. See the opposite page for some basic instruction. I recommend you read through the entire book to fully understand the drawing process. After you've studied it from start to finish, refer back to difficult sections. THE SPHERE Understanding the makeup of a sphere is crucial to mastering drawing.

Think of a sphere as a flat circle with six sides: a front and back, two sides and a top and bottom. Notice how the six sides move and stay together as the sphere rotates. THE ELLIPSE The circles above are divided vertically by an x-axis and horizontally by a y-axis. There is also an invisible z-axis that goes through them diagonally. Think of the circles as spheres with invisible ellipses going around them. As the spheres rotate, so do the ellipses.

The dashed line represents the hidden side of the ellipse, and you can see that ellipses are always symmetrical when divided in half by one of the axes. Use the sketches throughout this book to study how spheres and ellipses intersect and rotate. This concept will help you place features on your cartoonimals' heads and bodies in the correct proportions. Materials The tools you'll need are paper, markers, pencils and colored pencils (or a computer and editing software, if you choose to color your drawings digitally). Paper You're going to use a lot of paper, so you might as well save some money. Try 8 14 (20cm 36cm) or 11 17 (28cm 43cm) photocopy paper, available at any office supply store.

Paper is rated by its weight and brightness. Buy the heaviest and brightest paper you can afford and avoid glossy paper if you are using colored pencils. Markers Markers are versatile and dry instantly. Look for markers with a pointed nib (tip), preferably flexible. Some have very stiff tips that don't allow you to vary your lines. I prefer the Dixon Markette marker.

You can buy them online or from office supply stores in Canada. Try a variety of pens to see which ones you like best. A good pen is one that dries to the touch in just one second. Colored Pencils You don't need too many colored pencils to create bright and fun cartoonimals. The following palette covers the basics (see the actual tones on ): Orange, Canary Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Scarlet Lake Red or Carmine Red, Light Umber, Dark Umber, Terra Cotta, Sienna Brown, Burnt Ochre, Green Bice, Olive Green, Dark Green, Light Aqua, Light Cerulean Blue, Copenhagen Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Bright Violet, Dark Purple, Cream, Peach, Cool Grey 20%, French Grey 50%, Black and White. Color names may vary from brand to brand.

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