The Chris Hart Thread

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'TRACE & DRAW"

The most honest book cover ever

lol, I should browse the other forums more often, this is funny shit.

I'm now firing up some plans to troll his DA account.

http://artist-confessions.tumblr.com/post/25178667169/book-covers-c-chris-hart

That's a sad story

I thought it was a bad excuse, but his books teach very bad habits. They stock them in art stores and I cringe whenever I see kids looking at them. The covers themselves are unappealing and look like crap.

I then encourage all to not buy Mr. Hart's books but rip them off any reliable torrent and further encourage others to spread this word.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-hart/6/567/73b

Christopher Hart's Summary

I am the leading author of an extensive How-to-Draw book series, covering a wide range of topics from cartoons to manga, superheroes, animals, human anatomy, figure drawing and more. Primarily published by Watson-Guptill, the art imprint of Random House. Over 3 million books in sold domestically, which have been translated into 20 languages.

I host my own TV show on the Comcast Network, entitled, "Chris Hart Teaches How To Draw Action Heroes," which can be seen on the Activity TV Station. My new board game, "Cartoon it!" which I illustrated and co-invented with award-winning game designer, Joyce Johnson, was just unveiled at this year's New York Toy Fair, and gets released later this year. It is published by game and puzzle company, "Thinkfun." I am credited with a special burst on the box cover.

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I wonder then if any of his shows are on YouTube.



Then I found this bit of info:

So, in his first year at CalArts, cited right above, he couldn't handle more than a year of their hellish and foundational buildingblocks must for all top artists admitted on their moderately low acceptance rate (only 34% of all applicants break in).

He can't use the excuse CalArts being too expensive. We know how cheap even private insitutions were back in the 1970s.

I think it's safe to assume New York University had an easier path.

I halfassed some redlines.
I think redlining for Hayakain was easier.

Whadda know.

I followed this tutorial


And got this somehow

He's been accussed of Rob Liefeld influence style.

From his website.

http://www.chrishartbooks.com/about.html

No, you wanted to skirt around the real drudgery creating artistic ingenuity even with world fucking famous animators and prefered a social scene instead for most of college life.

'Nuther insighful critique.
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/145991/

"Where there was a buck to be made, there was Christopher Hart. Hart was a cartoonist who came from a western comics background, and that's where his strengths lie. He had already released several "How to Draw" books based on western comics, heroes, and villains, and they were arguably decent books. Suddenly the great big manga fad came along and Hart saw an opportunity.... if he could mangle his style into some semblance of Manga and get a book out the door, he'd catch a profitable ride on the Manga wave as it began to hit.

And mangle he did. Hart's book "Manga Mania" hit the book stores. Though including a lot of color and example artwork, anyone who was very fimiliar with anime and manga could instantly recognize that this was not a manga pro, but a western comics artist trying to approximate some of the general surface details of a style he did not completely understand. His art looked ungenuine and very western. Add to that the fact that much of the illustrations were unrefined sketches and sloppily enlarged pictures. Still, the book sold quite well.

To be fair, Christopher Hart did pack in some very good art pointers and panel layout tips. But for representing the manga style as a teacher, he failed. We're not quite talking the Katy Coope degree, but still... Hart even included sections on getting a job in the Manga/Anime industry, as if you could. I hate to break some dreams here, but even today, including anime in your portfolio is a great way to get your portfolio ignored. And don't even think you can travel to Japan for your manga job. Christopher Hart is selling you an unattainable pipe dream for $15.95 on paperback.

Hart didn't stop at Manga Mania. He released Manga Madness, Mecha Mania, Chibis and Furries, Anime Mania, Manga Shoujo, Manga Mania Video Games, Magical Girls, Manga Fantasy, Manga Villains, Manga Martial Arts, Manga "Xtreme" Art, and more.
Then, if that wasn't enough, he stemmed into Korean art with Manhwa Mania as if he was some expert in Korean comics.

Has anyone else seen these books and felt like he's not quite qualified to teach Manga art styles? Does somebody think there's actually some good to these books? I'd like to know what some of you other artists and comic-makers think."

Now taking commissions!

DA frontpage, here you come.

lol

I can't wait for the next lesson, where we learn to draw ghost people goggles!

Bullshit, this is DD material bro!