A Breath of Fresh Air in the How To Draw Comics Genre
Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics By James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, Alexis Frederick-Frost
In a story similar to Shrek or Rapunzel, the knight needs on an adventure that leads him to a ferocious dragon, so with a faithful yet consistently hungry steed and a wise talking fairy. The knight’s travels changes with each panel, and is eventually confronted with talking vegetables and a dragon that lives to eat nothing but candy, or breathe fire.
This book also doubles as an instructional drawing book. So if you want to learn or read up on doodling comic basics then this is a book for you to flip through.
It is a short entertaining read, teaching elements of a comic, from the usage of panels, to sounds and to effects. Each character from the horse, to the dragon to the knight is easy to copy or draw. Just need to know basic shapes and the reader or artist learner can move from there. As mentioned by the publisher itself, this is a book easily shared and targeted toward young readers. There is a drawing sample from a young reader.
There are many books on how to draw, but are there other books that are simply entertaining to read as a simple book as well? It is good to teach a child to be inspired from a young age, so who knows – any child that picks up this book may eventually want to be an artist or be the next fantastic artist.
Linda Yau is a fan of Japanese culture, and various anime/manga titles. She writes for several other online publications as animemiz, and her main blog is at animemiz.com.