| "Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec, 2019 |
| Aesthetic Morphisms |
| Jocelyn Ireson-Paine |
| www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/ |
| "Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec, 2019 |
| Aesthetic Morphisms |
| Jocelyn Ireson-Paine |
| www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/ |
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Here is another demonstration, from Jack Hamm's Cartooning the Head and Figure. Note the importance he attaches to occlusion, and all the occurrences thereof in his drawings. I suspect that one reason he draws so many creases is that it gives more lines to occlude.
❝There are only four ways an artist can produce the illusion of forward motion in two dimensions: 1. By perspective (things getting larger as they come forward, smaller as they go back), 2. By overlap (one thing in front of another), 3. By values (dark and light) and 4. By color (its several attributes).
The cartoonist must use the first two almost exclusively. When one or more cartoon characters are considered apart from their surroundings, overlap assumes priority over all other ways. For 'Mr. Dumpy' above, the foot overlaps the lower leg, the lower leg overlaps the upper leg, the whole leg overlaps the body and the body overlaps the remaining foot in the rear. NOT ONLY IN THE FRONT VIEW WALK, BUT IN ALL CARTOON ACTIVITY, THE FOREGOING IS MOST SIGNIFICANT.❞
— Adapted from Hamm page 60.
