I am drawing still, no seriously I am!

I will be posting some more drawings soon enough. I just need to scan them. However I have been reading some of the books I bought some time ago. One in particular that is quite literally a course on its own is Walt Stanchfields book: Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes Volume 1

Drawn to Life is a pretty good book, and I have been drawing along side it as well. I don't believe this is a book you can hand to the beginning artist. If anything Preston Blairs book is the beginners book, not to say it is only good for beginners. That isn't true either. However, Drawn to Life goes into quite a lot of depth, has lots of terms and isn't necessarily a step 1 to step 2 kind of book. It expects that you have some basic understanding already, which is perfectly fine really.

I also went back to Eric Goldberg's Character Animation Crash Course. It is literally a crash course! You have roughly 40 pages (back to back) of drawing lessons that help reinforce what you can learn in Preston Blair's book. The rest is animation 101, and then you should have some drawing skill under you belt before you proceed. Eric Goldberg's book is nice and all, but it doesn't quite compare to Preston Blair's. It complements it at best. Although for me it was the book I saw before running into Preston's.

I also receive my Tex Avery DVD collection. I must say that I am content with the quality offered. It isn't quite as refined as the Droopy Collection, but it is still better (IMO) than torrent downloads of the same cartoons. When I say better I don't mean that the torrent download is terrible. What I mean to say is that you will find the quality to have a better consistency over all. Some of the cartoons I wanted to see in better quality were cartoons like: Bad Luck Blackie, and Dixieland Droopy. One thing to note with Bambers version of the collection is that they are meant for television. Essentially these people have licenses to sell these cartoons to television networks in the UK (if I am not mistaken). However most networks will usually censor or edit these cartoons. This will largely depend on the cartoon though.

So should you buy the Bambers collection? I would say yes at this point. Until an official Tex Avery release is made where the cartoons are cleaned up (as seen in the Droopy Collection) you will have one of three options: a)torrent the cartoon collection, b)purchase the collection from Bambers, or c)get the LaserDisc version (assuming you have a LaserDisc player).