Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits
The New Authoritative Guide on Drawing Cool Comic Portraits *Features 30 step-by-step demonstrations for easy reference *Presented with a sense of humor and a cool design to set it apart from dated competitors *Appealsl to the wide trade market of 13-year-old-plus beginners Anyone can learn to draw sharp and cool caricatures with Face Off. Presented in an entertaining style, the easy-to-learn techniques and basic processes will make the art of comic portrait drawing simple, even for young beginners.
Curvaceous women, a top subject sought by comic book publishers, are the focus of this eye-popping instructional that shows aspiring cartoonists exactly how to master drawing a bevy of fabulous females. From basic anatomy, musculature, body positions, and action poses to facial expressions, hairstyles, and costumes, this truly invaluable and unique resource covers in great detail every aspect of depicting great-looking women for comic books.
Storylines...Picture sequences for language practice
Storylines consists of twenty picture sequences, each one depicting a story of immediate and contemporary appeal (conservation, sport, fashion, technology, natural disasters, charity work, humour and human interest), plus full exploitation material. The picture sequences are of four distinct types: comic, narrative, documentary and photographic, each with its own style of illustration .
As a unique, one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,000 characters created by DC Comics, this is the book that all comic book fans have been waiting for! Featuring some of DC's most creative artists and heroes and villains from the world famous to lesser known one-offs, this thrilling, one-of-a-kind guide has comic book history exploding off every page.
The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hierarchical one, merging together horizontal and vertical narratological perspectives in a systematic way. The book covers the main areas of linguistic analysis and is deliberately interdisciplinary...
