Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain : How to Come Up With Jokes for Cartoons and Comic Strips

teaching Cartoonists How To Evoke Laughs Is The Latest Great Idea To Come From A Best-selling Author Who Always Knows Just What Readers Want. Aspiring Cartoonists And Seasoned Professionals All Face The Same Problem: Coming Up With A Steady Stream Of Jokes For Their Drawings. But There's A Science To Funny Art, And This Book's Complete Course Shows Just How To Create Comic Panels And Strips That Get Laughs, Setup Right Through To Punch Lines. The Essential Tools Of Joke Writing Are Outlined: Visual Stereotypes Of Comic Teaming (fat/skinny, Short/tall): Setting Up A Character's Agenda, Then Putting Up Obstacles To Create Conflict; Action That Brings The Surprise. Other Valuable Guidance Includes Whether To Find Resource Materials For Jokes, Plus Tips For Drawing Comic Lettering Styles And Dialogue Balloons. library Journal hart, A Regular Contributor To Mad Magazine And A Comedy Screenwriter, Has Produced A Manual With Equal Emphasis On The Art Of Cartooning And The Art Of Comedy. He Has The Requisite Chapters On How To Draw Funny Characters, But He Comes Into His Own When He Analyses Pacing And Rhythm, Set-up And Punch Lines, And The Differences Between Dramatic And Comedic Scenes. Certain Words, He Maintains, Are Ordinary And Certain Ones Funny (e.g., Fat Is Ordinary, Bloated Is Funny, Four Is Ordinary, Five Is Funny--as Are All Odd Numbers). This And Robin Hall's The Cartoonist's Workbook: Drawing, Writing Gags, Selling (lj 11/15/97) Are The Two Best Such Books Available. Книга Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain Книги Искусство. Живопись Автор: Christopher Hart Год издания: 1998 Формат: pdf Страниц: 158 Размер: 11 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:This book's complete course shows just how to create comic panels and strips that get laughs, setup right through to punch lines. The essential tools of joke writing are outlined: visual stereotypes of comic teaming (fat/skinny, short/tall): setting up a character's agenda, then putting up obstacles to create conflict; action that brings the surprise. Other valuable guidance includes whether to find resource materials for jokes, plus tips for drawing comic lettering styles and dialogue balloons.In short: learn to draw funny comics! One of the toughest tasks for the cartoonist is the problem of coming up with jokes for their cartoon drawings. For those facing such a challenge, this book offers a course in setting up cartoon gags. Topics discussed include the set-ups and punch lines, and visual characterizations. This book gives instructions on how to draw cartoon characters, and show how to come up with jokes for the cartoons