Books in the Christopher Hart's Cartooning series

Cartoon animals are the essential subject matter for the cartoonists and animation artists. This book presents the fuzzy world of creatures, and shows different exotic animals, which also make for wonderfully cute characters, such as the cuddliest dogs, cats, bunnies, ferrets, badgers, walruses, zebras, sea otters, ostriches, pelicans, and more.

Covers various types of animals including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favourite sidekick animals - pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. This book features step-by-step drawings that show how to capture various cartoon emotions, from cutesy-sweet to begging to scheming.

Teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts and background design. This title features fantasy characters and even sections on cartoon costumes, character design and cartoon backgrounds and composition.

This manual offers a complete course in creating a repertoire of cartoon characters. Among the topics covered are: how to create your own characters; the basic cartoon body shape; popular cartoon expressions; developing your own style; cartoon backgrounds; and comic strip technique.