From his book Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons (How to Draw Series 26)
, which has been republished as Cartoon Animation 
.You can also find versions of it online.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Line of Action
From his book Animation: Learn How to Draw Animated Cartoons (How to Draw Series 26)
, which has been republished as Cartoon Animation .You can also find versions of it online.
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I completely forgot that I have a copy of this book but now that you mention it, I see it up there on the top shelf! I'm glad you highlighted it. It's got some really good stuff in it . . . the "How to Draw a Cute Bunny" part isn't so helpful to me but the loosening exercises and form-construction stuff are solid. I don't do much cartooning at all but there are plenty of good ideas that translate to drawing figures from the imagination in any style.
Mr. Gurney, you have become my Number One art resource! Thank you for this post, and links!
This is one of my favorite and most helpful tools for starting a drawing involving any sort of figure. Even for "static" figure studies, establishing the line of "action" (or flow) always provides a solid basis to build on.
This works well for cartoons, but does it apply when your drawing realistic figures?
Mr. Gurney, thank you for your time and energy put into this blog. I am a student studying illustration and find many helpful resources and ideas from your blog. Also I have always been a huge fan of Dynotopia.
Always love that book. Great resource and it helps with remembering to keep it loose.
"This works well for cartoons, but does it apply when your drawing realistic figures?"
In a way, yes. ;)
I still have this book. My parents bought it for me when I was quite young. I copied many of the cartoons from it so many years ago.
Anonymous and Tigress. Yes, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solomon_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg
Got this book when I was a kid as a gift from my parents - nearly forgot I had it! The hours of fun I had with this...
Here's a link to some of the lessons from the PB book that I found a number of years ago.
http://cdrrhq.ru/lessons/preston/main.htm
Thanks for your response.
I think henrich kley is a great artist to look at for this type of thing. His line of action is a bit less exaggerated than blairs though.
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