More Milt Stein

Cartoons and dinosaurs: 2 eternally cool things.Here's some more amazing Milt Stein cartoon art.He's obviously an animator but also influenced by the graphic looks of such comic strip artists as Herriman and Sterret.So cute and so stylish at the same time. A rare combination.And great backgrounds too!Milt understood the graphic power of stars.Not only did he draw nice star shapes (not easy to do!

Milt Stein - a perfect funny animal man

Here's a cartoonist I like a lot. He's a drawing textbook for all the cartoon skills and techniques I promote.His basic style is generic 40s animation funny animal. He has all the principles that add up to that look almost perfectly. On top of that he has his own unique stylistic finish.His most amazing skill is his ability to organize all the principles and design elements with a scene and

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Cartoony, Graphic and Directly to the Point: Kurtzman's Hey Look

Harvey Kurtzman's "Hey Look" is UPA before UPA. It's also something more. It has the graphic qualities of "Gerald McBoing Boing" and "Fudget's Budget", but without abandoning its cartoony roots. It's similar to T. Hee's style, but with a lot more verve.Technically, Harvey has a lot of obvious great qualities but above and beyond them all is his ability to balance them graphically to convey a

Owen Fitzgerald Dennis Christmas trees

Level 1: Overall Tree Shape- Green bent triangleLevel 2: Tree trunk and branches structure, inside green shapeLevel 3: Sub branches coming off horizontal branchesLevel 4: Needles coming off sub-branchesEach of the levels is following the shape and direction - and line of action of the level above. Every detail fits within the overall schemeVery artistically cleverThese trees, as stylized as they

Gnarly Tree Shafts

Here is the dissected anatomy of a tree shaft - it's made of subordinate tubes that cling together to make the bigger form.Here are some good and rude trees to practice hierarchy on.2 CONTRASTING URGES MAKE THE TREE'S FORMHere the sub tubes are wrenched apart. The feeling I get from the form of trees is that they are constructed out of opposing forces. One major force is trying to hold all the

Howie Post Trees, Cottages and Outdoor Scenes

Howie's details - like the leaves and bark on the trees are swell, but they are subservient to the larger shapes in the composition. Post makes sure he arranges the biggest shapes in relationship to each other first: Tree, sky house, character, ground - all these balance really nicely against each other. Once he has that balance, he wraps the details around the larger shapes.In that big fat solid

Cartoonist Warm Up Exercises: Girls' Hair

I strongly recommend to every growing cartoonist to do warm up exercises every day. Athletes warm up before stressing their stiff joints, musicians practice their scales every day before jumping right into their performances and I think cartoonists can benefit from limbering up their pencils and brains before they attack their work. I should follow this advice and I did this morning.PRACTICE THE

Design Balance: Fitting one character's positive shapes into another's negative space

Japanese magazines have some really good layout in them.These clusters of Dream Pets could easily have been cluttered disorganized messes, but instead they ad up to a pleasing and easy to understand design. The whole composition and arrangement invites your eyes to navigate easily accross the page.The layout artist arranged all the characters very carefully to make them:1) Read Clearly (