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15 years ago
I've been looking for an excuse to clear that last journal off my page, but this wasn't what I had in mind...
Chris Hart is publishing a how-to-draw-furries book.
If you don't know who this guy is, he used to be the king of cartooning books. Drew all his own demonstrations, made the process easy to follow but easy to adapt to other poses and original characters, and had an appealing style that budding artists like myself wanted to imitate. (Which is pretty much how you market a how-to-draw book.)
That ... thing on the cover looks nothing like his art. Which does not surprise me at all, because he's been either outsourcing the artwork in his books or doing an atrocious job of aping other art styles (I'm too lazy to find out which) for years now, ever since he started publishing books on how to draw "in the style of X" to appeal to all the budding devianTARDs out there who want to learn how to do fan art for That Show All the Cool Dids Are Talking About. *PTOOEY!*
I guess I'm going to have to hunt it down at the library once it comes out and see for myself how badly this turns out, just out of morbid curiosity. In the meantime, though, I can still highly recommend his earlier books, particularly (if you're interested in learning to draw furries) How to Draw Cartoon Animals, How to Draw Cartoon Dogs, Puppies and Wolves, and How to Draw Cartoon Cats, Kittens, Lions and Tigers. To this day, I would name him as my #1 artistic influence for both my cartoony and anthro styles, even though he's never done any anthro stuff himself (until, if we're really lucky, now).
Chris Hart is publishing a how-to-draw-furries book.
If you don't know who this guy is, he used to be the king of cartooning books. Drew all his own demonstrations, made the process easy to follow but easy to adapt to other poses and original characters, and had an appealing style that budding artists like myself wanted to imitate. (Which is pretty much how you market a how-to-draw book.)
That ... thing on the cover looks nothing like his art. Which does not surprise me at all, because he's been either outsourcing the artwork in his books or doing an atrocious job of aping other art styles (I'm too lazy to find out which) for years now, ever since he started publishing books on how to draw "in the style of X" to appeal to all the budding devianTARDs out there who want to learn how to do fan art for That Show All the Cool Dids Are Talking About. *PTOOEY!*
I guess I'm going to have to hunt it down at the library once it comes out and see for myself how badly this turns out, just out of morbid curiosity. In the meantime, though, I can still highly recommend his earlier books, particularly (if you're interested in learning to draw furries) How to Draw Cartoon Animals, How to Draw Cartoon Dogs, Puppies and Wolves, and How to Draw Cartoon Cats, Kittens, Lions and Tigers. To this day, I would name him as my #1 artistic influence for both my cartoony and anthro styles, even though he's never done any anthro stuff himself (until, if we're really lucky, now).
though agreed with fluff, it's not really something that needs a book since there's no set style on how to draw them.
His older stuff is a mixed bag, too. He knows anatomy, but some drawings seem lazier than others and don't appear to be peer reviewed very well. That's kind of important for a how-to book. On the other hand, he's good with encouraging different styles, which is a major problem with furry art in general.
I have like, 3 different books with chapters already showing me how to do that, it just doesn't have the label "furry" slapped on it.