Resources

Here I’ve bookmarked a whole bunch of articles on animation and drawing that I’ve found useful for reference. I’ll keep adding to this as I discover more.

Preston Blair

• “Animation” (first edition)

John K on Preston Blair’s Construction

• 1. Construction: The Head
• 2. Squash and Stretch on the Head
• 3. Proportion: Checking your Copies
• 4. Two Legged Characters: Full Body
• 5. Line of Action & Silhouettes
• 6. Construction: The Head (Advanced)
• 7. When Generic is a Good Thing
• 8. Proportions Affect Design / Contrasts
• 9. Hands: Simplifying Complicated Things
• 10. Model Sheets

John K

• Influences won’t help you without skill
• Colour Theories for Cartoons
• Composition for Cartoons

Glenn Vilppu

• Gesture drawing and drawing on location

Walt Stanchfield

• Drawing class notes
• Condensed version of his notes in book form

Andrew Loomis

• “Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth” and other out of print books as PDFs

Mark Kennedy

• Vanderpoel on Eyes
• Carrying a sketchbook: Part one, two, three, four.
• Shoulders
• Contrast and composition
• Things they don’t teach you in art school: Part one, two, three, four, five
• Character introductions
• Disney Comic strip artist’s kit
• Design and drawing 1
• Design and drawing 2: Straights against curves
• Design and drawing 3: Offset curves
• Design and drawing 4: Small, medium and large
• Design and drawing 5: Variety of shape
• Design and drawing 6: Proportion
• Design and drawing 7: Rhythm
• Glen Keane: Dynamics of Animated Drawing
• Glen Keane: More notes
• Glen Keane on Eagles