Oslo Davis

Drawing Funny

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you can’t learn cartooning, and it can’t be taught.’

And so begins Oslo Davis’ illustrated book on how to draw gag cartoons. Talk about shoot yourself in the foot! But he’s kidding, kind of. There are reasons why your terrible cartoons are not funny, and Oslo is very happy to point them out. He’s also prepared to give you some advice, for what it’s worth, using examples selected from more than twenty years’ drawing for newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Drawing Funny is a how-to guide for people who might never draw a cartoon in their life but always read the cartoons first in the New Yorker and want to know how it’s done.

Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist. Oslo draws regularly for the Age newspaper and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and online for SBS. He has also drawn for the Golden Plains music festival, the National Gallery of Victoria, Readings, Triple R FM and the Wheeler Centre, among many others. Oslo's books have covered topics ranging from Donald Trump, Henry Lawson, Asian mothers and scenes of angst-ridden daily life you can colour in.
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186 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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  • Yulia Nazarenkoshared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Fun, but not really teaching.

  • dariadiashared an impression3 years ago
    😄LOLZ

Quotes

  • Yulia Nazarenkohas quoted3 years ago
    Cartooning weirdness, where it didn’t matter if my joke made sense or not, reigned supreme.
  • Yulia Nazarenkohas quoted3 years ago
    My first attempts at gag cartoons were made by copying photos from old National Geographics and adding funny speech bubbles, or warping the drawing so it became silly.
  • zoespeleshas quoted4 years ago
    Picasso used to ask his students to draw the perfect circle. It can’t be done, of course – a drawing of a perfect circle doesn’t exist, but the point was that your circle would be completely your own will provide an insight into your style

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