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Crime Noir is the most sophisticated, exciting, and dangerous comic book genre around. It is the highly stylized, modern version of such classic 1950s films as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Asphalt Jungle". Modern crime noir is exploding in popularity with movies such as "Batman Begins" and graphic novels such as Frank Miller's "Sin City". This genre focuses on the mean streets of the city and its amoral characters. Picture windswept streets, deep shadowy figures, reckless woman, men without conscience, reluctant heroes, and boulevards of fear. It's the desperation of ordinary men, and the loneliness of the action hero. "Drawing Crime Noir" teaches the aspiring artist how to use all of the latest techniques and principles to create the moody world of crime noir. Extensive instruction is offered in the use of shadows to create intense comic book moods and suspense. And there's more: the costumes of noir - the trench coats and sunglasses of the nihilistic characters: the mobbed-up politicians on the take; and the hit men who keep order; the sexy women who would just as soon kill you as kiss you; techniques for creating dark, brooding, costumed action heroes; and how to turn an ordinary comic book scene into a crime noir scene and how to draw the weapons that the criminals use to make crime pay. Strong, cutting-edge imagery shows artists how to make crime pay. Superstar Christopher Hart explores a new genre. It is perfect for anyone interested in drawing for comic books or graphic novels.
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Christopher Hart is the world's best-selling author of drawing and cartooning books. His titles have sold more than two and a half million copies worldwide and have been translated into seventeen languages
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good book and makes a good introduction to drawing in the noir style. It clearly shows the drawing and ink up techniques needed to produce top quality artwork in this style. Team this book with the book "How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling" and you have a good start with a little talent at being able to produce artwork in this style. I recommend the second book because I feel that "Drawing Crime Noir for Comics and Graphic Novels" is weak on the mechanics of producing the final comic artwork. It's very good at showing how to draw is this style if that's what you need.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I spend a lot of my time drawing and illustrating. I'm entirely self taught and i've picked up a lot of hints and tips from books like this one. Noir is not my style but i thought i'd give it a go.
The book is well laid out. It talks you through the genre in an open and intuitive manner (not chopping and changing from subject to subject like some other books i've had). There are lots of illustrations with side notes to explain what exactly has been done and why.
I really bought this for the shading lessons and it does not disappoint in that regard. Yes, it skims over the basics and assumes that you have a good basis under you and that this is simply a style excercise, which in my case it was, but it's a good overview as a whole.
It's a good book. As long as you have basic artistic skills and you just want to try something new, this is the way to go. It's not steeply priced and doesn't waffle at you like you practice modern art in New York. It's succinct and to the point.
There's nothing remarkable that makes it stand out from any other in the market, but that's fine. It does its job and it does it well.
If you want an introduction to the basics of Noir, get this book. You want to specialise or, at the other end of the spectrum, start learning, you'll have to find another.
The book is well laid out. It talks you through the genre in an open and intuitive manner (not chopping and changing from subject to subject like some other books i've had). There are lots of illustrations with side notes to explain what exactly has been done and why.
I really bought this for the shading lessons and it does not disappoint in that regard. Yes, it skims over the basics and assumes that you have a good basis under you and that this is simply a style excercise, which in my case it was, but it's a good overview as a whole.
It's a good book. As long as you have basic artistic skills and you just want to try something new, this is the way to go. It's not steeply priced and doesn't waffle at you like you practice modern art in New York. It's succinct and to the point.
There's nothing remarkable that makes it stand out from any other in the market, but that's fine. It does its job and it does it well.
If you want an introduction to the basics of Noir, get this book. You want to specialise or, at the other end of the spectrum, start learning, you'll have to find another.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm very impressed with the drawings in this book. Its a good introduction to the crime noir genre. I got into the Crime noir genre because of Frank Miller's artwork. However, I think its more for experienced artists than beginners. My only real criticism is that it would have been nice to show how to do the drawings step by step. You only see a basic outline and then the end result, no steps in between. I think that some of the drawings could be explained more too. All in all though I really like this book.
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So good it's criminal.
Love this book to say the least, soon as it came me and a friend looked through it and couldn't wait to read it properly and use the drawing techques it teaches. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. T. Curtis
Crime Noir
Bought this for my son who is into this style of drawing and he believes this to be an excellent product. Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. Ward
Chris Hart's Crime Noir
One of the best in the series from the prolific Chris Hart, a good guide to the illustration of "noir" comics, dealing well with the anatomy, poses, accessories, typical characters... Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2010 by Dovedaler
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A great book for both crime noir lovers and comic book lovers. I would love to have seen a bit more of 'how to' in the book, but all in all, well worth the money paid.
Published on 3 Dec 2009 by Noir Fan
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