The Best Tools For Cartoonists

...if you wanna work for me anyway.I am starting a couple projects and will be on the lookout for cleanup artists, inbetweeners and maybe animators. What I need from cartoonists and animators are some basic traditional skills.Here is a quick rundown of the tools I find the most useful:CONSTRUCTIONThis is the most important one for me. I need artists who can draw solidly and make their characters

Pretty Girls by Rasmusson

Hal Rasmusson is a cartoonist who I only know of from the Walter T. Foster cartoon books.He draws pretty girls like a sonuvabitch.It's nice of him to explain some of how he does it too.He's got some real common sense advice. No hippie teacher mumbo-jumbo.I used 2 different editions of the same book, because some of the pages overlap. The older edition (the skinny pages) has slightly better

Thanks To Donators

Thanks to all these folks and I hope you are getting something out of it!BTW, I have started my first private and semi private lessons. Rather than having one all-encompassing course that each student has to fit into, I am tailoring classes to the individual's needs and their stage of skill. If you live in the LA area and are interested, put a comment and a link to some of your work.Classes would

Heartaches Pilot 10: Revision and thanks

A stray mutt enters the scene. He's curious as to who's asleep. There's just one way to find out.He recognizes the spoor - and yet something's not quite right.It dawns on the nose what the added sweet tinge of the odor signifies. This causes a jubilant indian dance.He summons all his buddies to share the happy news.Everyone scrambles and butts in each other's way to enjoy a whiff of the romantic