Category Archives: Cartooning

The Animated Doodles of Dan Berry

By Jay | Published: 03/13/2013

Here’s a cute music video for Jim Guthrie’s “The Rest is Yet to Come”. Artist Dan Berry made a panoramic background with simple animations of watercolor drawings. The result is a slow pan across a landscape of musicians, leaves and fire. He provides a peek at his process by posting pictures of the video in [...]

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The Endlessly Contorting Escher Girls

By Jay | Published: 03/14/2012

It seems that when women are depicted in action comics their spines turn to rubber, their breasts inflate and their feet taper to sharp points. Such is the world depicted by Escher Girls, a Tumblr that surfaces the most ridiculous depictions of female anatomy found in the latest comic books. The signature move on the [...]

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Drawing Tangents

By Jay | Published: 12/09/2011

Cartoonist Chris Schweizer has an informative overview of composition problems that can pop up when drawing. The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents defines tangents as …when two or more lines interact in a way that insinuates a relationship between them that the artist did not intend. Chris follows with a delightfully illustrated list of ambiguities [...]

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Charles Schulz tortures Charlie Brown

By Jay | Published: 09/03/2011

In this short video Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz explains how he takes his frustration at a low score in bowling out on poor ole’ Charlie Brown.

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