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Hello, My name is Rogelio E. Toledo. I am 27 years old and work doing technical jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with art/drawing. I've been fascinated by animation, cartoons, comics and illustration since I was about 5 years old. I enjoy drawing for my own personal amusement.

I've always wanted to improve my drawing skills and I really have tried to but I didn't have any idea where to start. I've never had the opportunity to take any art classes and most of the instruction books I had access to weren't very helpful. I looked around the internet to find some sort of GOOD drawing/cartooning instruction. The only really good thing I found was a couple of pages on drawing backgrounds that John Kricfalusi had put together and somebody had posted on a forum. I found them to be really helpful. I did a google search for John Kricfalusi which led me to his blog, his Preston Blair book advice and finally to the Animation Archive's website.



Fundamentals of Composition is my favorite of the archive's blog posts. It's exactly what I had been looking for. I always knew about stuff like compostion but I never knew enough about it to actually be able to plan, arrange and use it. Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning also had a ton of good information in it too. Seeing each artist's methods of organizing and their techniques for putting everything together really broke the cartooning process down and simplified it for me. I also liked the People on Paper, Makin' 'em Move and A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz video posts. It's one thing to read about how these people do their work but actually seeing them at work makes it much nicer.The artist profiles, illustrations and comics posted here are really great too.

The past several months I've been busy re-teaching myself how to draw. I'm doing it correctly this time with the Preston Blair book. There's a lot of things on this blog that I just haven't had the time to get around to practicing and using. I would like to go through the W L Evans Cartooning And Caricaturing Course and actually practice the storyboarding in Chad's Design For Television, I do plan to go through those eventually. -Rogelio E. Toledo

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