Friday, November 23, 2007
Education: W L Evans Course Part Two
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 8 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great art instructional material.
Want to learn to cartoon the way Elzie Seegar, the man who brought Popeye to life did? How about Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, or Hank Ketcham the father of Dennis the Menace? They all learned to draw cartoons with the W. L. Evans correspondence course. A while back, we posted Lesson One. Here is lesson two. If you'd like me to post more, show me you are using this material by posting your lessons on your website or blog.Lesson Two
STUDENTS: Print this stuff out and USE IT!
If you found this post to be interesting, see... The W. L. Evans School of Cartooning and Caricaturing Lesson One
Also see... Preston Blair and John K's $100K Animation Drawing Course, Gene Byrnes' Complete Guide To Cartooning Part One: The Men Behind The Newspaper Comics, Part Two: How To Get Ideas / Studies of Comic Strips, Part Three: Single Panel and Sports Cartoonists, Part Four: Editorial Cartoons & Comic Books, Part Five: Sketching, Part Six: Magazine Cartooning and Part Seven: Magazine Cartooning (continued); Nat Falk's "How To Make Animated Cartoons" Part One: The History of Animation, Part Two: The Cartoon Studios, Part Three: How Cartoons Are Made, Part Four: How To Draw Cartoons and Part Five: How To Animate, Willard Mullin on Animals.
Many thanks to Archive supporter, Marc Schirmeister for sharing this with us.
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11 Comments:
Crap! I have too much stuff to try! I'm completely overwhelmed. I need to start one thing and actually get proficient at it before I start new stuff, or I'm never going to get anywhere. But I'll definitely do these lessons at some point.
Right now, I'm diligently plugging away at Preston Blair, if you feel like it, check out my progress here:
www.holyshenanigans.blogspot.com
Thanks for your gifts to humanity, Steve! The world owes you.
Josh Heisie
By the way, I have some manly old fifties Man magazines (Ken for Men, Real Life Adventures) with some great art in them, do you want me to scan some?
Josh
For the love o' Pete, please post the whole thing! I will will will will WILL work on it, as so many others are planning, I'm sure.
You can check out the "before art" in the form of my in progress comic, Argot, at paulstadden.com. I just discovered this antique yet relevant course today.
Wow. These are great. I've just gone back and read through Lesson One.
But...these look hand typed! Like, on a typewriter. Typos and all. Were the originals you scanned mimeographed typescript, or what?
Oh I would love to be able to do these wash lessons, but I have to do homework for art school, which isn't teaching me to create art.
The lessons do appear to be hand typed. I'm guessing that Evans hired stenographers to produce the course. There's a space at the end for Evans to sign each lesson. This particular set isn't signed, but I have seen some that have been.
See ya
Steve
You've gotta carve out time to go to art school AND learn to become a better artist, Max. In a few years when you're a hotshot Hollywood cartoonist, you'll have to juggle a job and self improvement studies. It never ends!
See ya
Steve
Great stuff. I will be doing these excercises in both pen and ink and in Painter (software)as well.
I really appreciate you posting these.
I'm currently working through lessons one and two.
Thank you for providing these 'back to the basics' lessons.
I hope that you can find time to post more (and hopefully, all) of this series.
revdoug
in sunny south Florida
I've been working on these, I promise. Here's the proof:
paulstadden.com/Writings. I started on plate 2, which is copying the comic, but it's taking me a while. Lots of fun, though. I've also started on the $100,000 animation course. Those heads are a blast!
ok steve im going to print it, but how can i do to show you my progress.
thank you juan pablo
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