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The Drawing Club: Master the Art of Drawing Characters from Life
by Bob Kato
Quarry Books | August 2014 | ISBN-10: 1592539114 | True HQ PDF | 144 pages | 124 mb
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Club-Master-Characters-Life/dp/1592539114

Are you a fan of film, comics, video games and animation? Do you love to draw and tell stories? If so, you are like the hundreds of artists who come to expand and broaden their skills at Los Angeles' original character drawing workshop, The Drawing Club. Since 2002, artists from all over the LA region have gathered each Thursday night at a special place where story and character are interpreted from life.
In The Drawing Club, many of these professional working artists and the club's founder, Bob Kato, will teach you how to think differently about drawing characters from lifeâ??and, in true Drawing Club spirit, have a good time doing it!
Whether you're a full-time commercial artist, a hobbyist, or you just like to draw, the exercises in The Drawing Club are for you!

- Learn how to translate the world from 3D to 2D.
- Tell a story through your work.
- Gain insights into various materials.
- Examine comic approaches to drawing.
- Discover how to develop your voice as an artist.
- An impressive gallery showcases the fine work and inspiring characters from many of the master artists and animators working today!

About the Author

Founder and director of The Drawing Club, Bob Kato is an associate professor of Illustration and Entertainment Design at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he has taught since 1989. He has also run drawing workshops at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Consumer Products, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Toons Studios, Walt Disney Online, and Universal Studios Creative. As an illustrator he has created illustrations for publications such as National Lampoon and Spy magazine as well as for permanent exhibits in The Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo and the Florida Aquarium.

CONTENTS
Introduction 6
Chapter 1: What Is a Good Drawing? 8
Chapter 2: Why Is 2-D Design So Important? 24
Chapter 3: Concept and Story 42
Chapter 4: Improvisation 60
Chapter 5: What Is Funny? 72
Chapter 6: Materials 80
Chapter 7: Sketchbooks 94
Chapter 8: Mileage 104
Gallery 116
Artist Directory 138
About the Author 143
Acknowledgments 144