A decent resource for starting out in cartooning. My 8yo daughter looked through it, but she hasn't had time to delve into yet. It'd probably be better as a print book, the pdf was hard to navigate.

I was a little disappointed with the first 1/3 or so of the book. There was a lot of what I consider to be filler in instructional art book. Pages and pages or try your own here (useless in digital copies) and here’s samples of what we did. Useful for those who already draw in that style, not so useful if you need tips to get you to that level of an artist. I was about to put it down but I stuck with it and oh hello, pretty decent instructional pages. You’ll even learn to draw Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. It’s not my favorite art book ever, but it is a pretty decent book for those who already draw at a basic level and want tips for mastering a cartoon’y style.

The Little Book Cartooning & Illustration is a fun, easy to read and understand book. I read it and found a lot of useful techniques and advice. We enjoyed drawing little silly things too!
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This brief booklet is for novice artists and teaches by examples the basic of cartooning and illustration.

One star is off because it should be a little less "brief", anyway the book is worth its price.

This is a great book for budding artists who want to have a go at cartooning. There is enough in there for a beginner to have a go. The focus is on expressions and people, and the style reminds of the old American cartoons. There is plenty of places and prompts to get you started and for you to try some pictures yourself. A good book for getting started, the instructions are easy to follow and the explanations are easily understood. Thanks

I thought the book was decent,, with some good advice for artists trying to get started with the drawing aspect of cartooning. It wasn't the best experience as an ebook, but that's expected. I was hoping for a bit more advice about composition and coming up with ideas, but this just wasn't that kind of book. I still think it would be useful to some people, it just wasn't for me.

This book shows aspiring cartoonists how to build characters by using the building blocks of facial expression, poses, etc., in a stepwise manner and with many examples. Even though the instructions start at a very basic level, and build from there, a reader without some basic drawing proficiency will probably quickly be left behind. It's great to see all the steps, but if you have trouble executing them, they won't help you. For an audience with sufficient skills, this book looks like it would be a useful introduction to conveying expression in cartoon characters. For the rest of us, it's more of a spectator sport.

I’m, at best, passable with a pencil, but I would like to get better. As such, I’m always on the look out for instructional material which can help me improve. Thanks to NetGalley I got to read The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration which looked very interesting.

The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration bills itself as a collection of tips and techniques for drawing characters and expressions in a traditional cartoon/animation style. It definitely looks stylistically traditional to me, a novice and know-nothing.

The book begins with a brief overview of physical tools and materials, and an even briefer aside about digital ones, before getting straight to business. As a beginner I would have liked a little more handholding, but after a very short intro to the basics of drawing a human head, a page with a template follows for your own attempt.

Assuming you now have assimilated the rules, the book delves into how to break them for conveying emotion, character or motion cartoonishly. Quickly moving through drawing heads, body parts, emotions, and bodies, and adding colour, part 1 ends with a series of full step-by-step character drawings.

Part 2 concerns itself with animals and inanimate objects, and driving home the point that in cartooning, less really can be more. Part 3 spends about 8 pages on two step-by-step walkthroughs illustrating scenes and gags, respectively. Part 4 consists entirely of two step-by-step caricatures, spending about 5 pages per character.

I’m so happy I got to read this book, but ultimately it isn’t for me. I’m not interested in the style taught in this book, and I also found it a little intimidating as someone who isn’t proficient enough with a pencil to be able to simply draw a character. I need more info on the basics of how to draw characters, not just how to change the style or expressions of them.