{"id":8324,"date":"2012-05-05T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2012-05-03T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:06:44","slug":"beano-how-to-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2012\/05\/05\/beano-how-to-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Beano: How to Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Beano-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Beano-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Beano-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Beano.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br \/>\nBy anonymous (Beano Books\/Parragon Book Service Ltd)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-40548-745-0<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t covered a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How To\u00e2\u20ac\u009d book for ages and as this one&#8217;s entertaining, wonderfully fit for purpose, still cheap and readily available and even comes with the appropriate toolkit (a set of coloured pencils), it would well serve any budding artists and prospective animators to seek it out and absorb\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>This large-scale, slim yet sturdy book gives away the visual secrets behind the anarchic stars of Britain&#8217;s best loved comic; offering <em>Getting Started and Basics<\/em>, assorted <em>Character Profiles<\/em> and, divided into <em>Faces,<\/em> <em>Heads<\/em> and <em>Bodies<\/em>, the nuts and bolts of how you too can craft the antics of the scurrilous stars of the show in action.<\/p>\n<p>Said scamps include <em>Dennis the Menace<\/em>, faithful, frightful <em>Gnasher<\/em>, <em>Minnie the Minx<\/em>, terrible toddler and arch-rival <em>Ivy the Terrible<\/em>, weedy <em>Walter the Softy<\/em> and <em>Baby Bea<\/em> &#8211; the Menace&#8217;s sinister baby sister.<\/p>\n<p>Also included are supporting cast members such as the long-suffering <em>Colonel<\/em>, <em>Police Sgt. Slipper<\/em> and willing accomplice-in-mischief <em>Curly<\/em>, precisely broken down into easy to follow graphic steps and supplemented by a gallery of model sheets and handy stock poses to get you started: everything you need to create your own comics once you&#8217;ve read, re-read and re-reread the splendid weekly adventures of all concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliantly colourful and with clear concise instructions covering the undeniable basics that every pictorial storyteller &#8211; whatever their age &#8211; needs to master, this is an indispensable and tremendously inspiring introduction for the aspiring Artist of Tomorrow.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Beano\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00ae \u00c2\u00a9 and associated characters \u00e2\u201e\u00a2\u00c2\u00a9 D.C. Thomson &amp; Co., Ltd 2007. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By anonymous (Beano Books\/Parragon Book Service Ltd) ISBN: 978-1-40548-745-0 I haven&#8217;t covered a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How To\u00e2\u20ac\u009d book for ages and as this one&#8217;s entertaining, wonderfully fit for purpose, still cheap and readily available and even comes with the appropriate toolkit (a set of coloured pencils), it would well serve any budding artists and prospective animators to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2012\/05\/05\/beano-how-to-draw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beano: How to Draw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,42,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-books","category-best-of-british","category-kids-all-ages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-2ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}