Drawing cartoons - John Byrne

This successful bumper gift book is full of practical advice and numerous step-by-step exercises on drawing a wide range of cartoons, caricatures, comics and animated cartoons.

Drawing Cartoons is an ideal introduction for the budding cartoonist. There's useful advice on the tools and equipment needed and all the techniques are very clearly and simply described, with step-by-step examples and demonstrations, including over 400 cartoons and caricatures.

The book covers a range of topics starting with how to draw basic cartoons and create different characters then introducing ways to bring those characters to life; portraying expressions and gestures, adding speech bubbles and capturing the personalities of your subjects on paper.

Drawing Cartoons also includes instruction on how to draw portraits and political, stylised or quick-draw caricatures followed by sections illustrating methods of creating a narrative for your cartoon characters by writing a comic script or creating an exciting story board.