Howie Post Drawing Like Owen Fitzgerald!

HOWIE POST DOES STARLET OHARA STYLEBTW, something fun is happening tomorrow. I'll tell you about it after it happens. Maybe you'll find it on your own.

Owen Fitzgerald Dennis Christmas trees

Level 1: Overall Tree Shape- Green bent triangleLevel 2: Tree trunk and branches structure, inside green shapeLevel 3: Sub branches coming off horizontal branchesLevel 4: Needles coming off sub-branchesEach of the levels is following the shape and direction - and line of action of the level above. Every detail fits within the overall schemeVery artistically cleverThese trees, as stylized as they

A Classic Cartoon Face In Real Life

Ingrid Bergman has a great facial structure. She has very strong defined bones and then really distinct cheeks, lips and nose and eyes sticking out of, wrapped around and sitting within them.Unfortunately, in these glamor photos you don't see them quite as well as you can in her movies. I think the publicity department went out of its way to try to hide her most interesting features.She has a

Ron Ferdinand Interview 2

b) Who were all his ghosts?The names I recall are Fitzgerald, Al Wiseman, Lee Holley, Bob Bugg and later Frank Hill….there were a few more that escape me at the moment. (Marcus Hamilton - jk)http://www.dennisthemenace.com/marcushamilton.htmlWhen did Ketcham start using assistants?I think he did the whole enchilada for the first year or two.Who did the Sunday pages in the 50s and sixties?Y’know ,

Owen Fitzgerald Dennis Inks

Ron Ferdinand sent me these nice high rez scans of original Dennis pages, so I thought I'd share 'em.

3/4 left to right camera angle VS Over the Shoulder Shots

Cartoon scenes are most often staged with all the characters looking at each other, each drawn at a 3/4 angle.Does it make sense? When you talk to your friend, do you each look askance at each other, or do you look directly at each other?Good cartoonists like Howie Post can make it look natural - but when Saturday Morning cartoons developed fear and conservatism to the point where everyone was

Opposing Poses in 2 and 3 different dimensions

If you wanna make your characters seem alive and aware of each other's presence it's good to balance their poses against each other so that they are reacting to each other. Try to have their lines of action vary in strength and direction.USE NEGATIVE SPACE!If one character is doing the acting - have the other character reacting to it in a less dynamic but still active pose. It's a good trick to

Silhouettes Speak Volumes

Both Post and Fitzgerald are good at drawing clear silhouettes. The difference?Post's 2 characters are on one flat plane lined up right behind each other - which is not a criticism, just an observation.In Fitzgerald's sillo, each character is1) in a different pose,2) is positioned at a slightly different distance from our viewpoint and3) each inhabits all 3 dimensions.4) Parts of them come

3 dimensional VS 2 dimensional design

Howie's characters are made up almost entirely from 40s "cartoon shapes" - the stock Elmer Fudd head construction, pear shaped bodies and tube arms. Their poses are utilitarian: they tell the story but do not distinguish any differences between the characters.Howie Relies On Basic Principles, Style, Natural Appeal and CartooninessMost of his poses are simple profiles, 3/4 views or straight on

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Comparing and contrasting 2 appealing cartoon approaches.These are 2 of my favorite cartoonists. They are both working in someone else's "house style" but are each bringing their own touch to the comics.Howie Post's style is made up almost entirely of 40s animated cartoon shapes and supplemented with his own abstract design quirks.Owen Fitzgerald's style looks on the surface also to be a 40s

Owen Fitzgerald Camera Angles

Owen Fitzgerald can stage scenes from any angle and make it look easy.In this Dennis story about the family playing pool, every shot is a new angle.Drawing poses of someone playing pool would be tricky enough even left to right, but Owen does it from every possible perspective, seemingly without effort.And he still manages to make the posing look natural and balanced.I wonder if the reason Owen

Cow Eyes

Ketcham/Fitzgerald Houses

This house is a basically simple design. But it's the dynamic angles they are drawn in that impress.There is a misleading looseness to these drawings that might make you think they are hastily thought out.But underneath the sketchy lines are some really difficult angles, killer posing and clever staging. The line style is just Fitzgerald's way of imposing some of Ketcham's style on top of his own

Cows, Cars, Houses or Milfs

I think Ketcham and his crew have a perfect balance of skill, style, cartooniness and observation.I have a Dennis comic that has some wonderful drawings of cows, cars, housesand of course, milfs.I want to do a post on one of these things they excel at.You decide which I should do first.This is my attempt at a bit of market research.YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM HANK KETCHAMOWEN FITZGERALD MENACES