"Rules: Logic and Applications" 2nd Workshop, Dec, 2019
Aesthetic Morphisms
Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
www.jocelyns-cartoons.uk/rules2019/
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Morphisms That Optimise for Gesture

Rolf Harris in Your Cartoon Time taught me one reason for reducing level of detail: to emphasise the action. The picture below shows the final two drawings in a sequence of tennis players he was trying:

You notice also that I've gone back to the blob for the hand holding the racket. [Which is what he started with, a page or two ago.] I feel the action is more important than the accuracy of the drawing.