Draw Retro Character Comic Cartoon

It's everywhere you look, in animated television shows and comic books. It's the new retro style. What is retro? It's the biggest thing to come along in cartooning in decades. It's a style of illustration loosely based on the animated TV shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s—a time when everything had a flat, graphic look, and the sly humor didn't play down to children.
Retro is also based on character types--
character types influenced by the popular
family sitcoms of the early to mid-'60s, when
everything looked nice on the surface: brownies
and milk, moms in the kitchen, and fathers who
never yelled. Yet there was always lurking a
sense that these families were too good to be
true and were repressing some truly bizarre
personalities and behaviors. Add a modern
look, bring those bizarre personalities to the
surface, ratchet up the pace to a fever pitch,
and you've got retro. As a cartoonist, you owe
it to yourself to stay current and learn how to
draw this growing, popular new style.
Interestingly, some of the retro-style
drawing principles are the exact opposite
of the principles used for drawing traditional
cartoons. For example, retro-style action poses
are drawn so that the figures seem to conserve
energy rather than expend it (which would be
the look of a more traditional cartoon).
Retro characters are so nerdy they're cool.
The retro style is, in fact, the coolest style of
cartooning on the planet. Retro-style animated
TV shows have completely stolen the thunder
of hand-drawn, animated feature films. While
the popularity of the hand-drawn, realistic style
of animated movies has waned, retro cartoons
are proliferating all over television. And even
the most heroic comic book characters and bad
guys have been redrawn by publishers and
studios into modern, retro versions. But retro
is about more than just style; it's also about
laughs. It's truly wacky stuff. The characters are
quirky, perky, and just a little bit warped. Their
break-neck pacing and hysterical characters are
generating legions of fans of all ages.
This book is packed to the brim with easy-to-
follow, step-by-step instructions and loads of
special hints. Anyone, at any level, can benefit
and can improve his or her skills by using this
book. You'll be shown how to create retro-style
heads and bodies from basic shapes, making it
easy and fun. You'll learn how to create the
basic cast of characters that make up the
bizarre retro family unit, including retro pets.
You'll learn how to caricature action poses in
the unique, retro style, with examples that
compare the new way to the traditional way of
cartooning. Retro facial expressions and body
language are illustrated clearly and in detail.
And at the end of the book, you'll be guided
through an exciting section on how to draw
scenes with multiple characters. Are you ready?
Let's go retro!