"Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square" by Margherita Cole is a fantastic guide that demystifies the art of cartooning with simplicity and creativity. Cole's approach, centered around basic shapes, makes cartooning accessible to all skill levels, even for those who may feel they lack artistic prowess. The book's step-by-step instructions, coupled with clear illustrations, empower aspiring cartoonists to bring their ideas to life. Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, "Cartooning Made Easy" is an enjoyable and effective resource that encourages artistic expression through the playful combination of circles, triangles, and squares.

Really accessible and detailed. This was a helpful reference in my journey to expand my skills. Overall I would recommend this to others, especially a younger audience.

Really loved this book and it’s very reminiscent of a book I had as a child and loved.
Really easy to follow. Excellent results quickly which motivates you to carry on.
Real good fun activity

Great little guide making cartoon drawing simple for newbies, an excellent approach which breaks it all down into three simple shapes. Ideal for kids or people who want to gain confidence in their art.


Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publishers for letting me read this book in exchange for my review.

Many books on the market advise on how to draw. Why to choose this one?

The author advises looking for three patterns in all objects and shows how to combine them to create own pictures. She displayed that it is no rocket science to draw a human body. A cartoon character calls for some simplicity so that you don't need to draw based on the rules. Nevertheless, the author's recipe still provides us with characters looking realistic.

You still need to practice and practice and practice. But with the know-how from this book, you can see the results soon.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster for a free digital review copy. This is my honest review.

This delightful, colorful, easy-to-read book is perfect for anyone wanting to learn how to draw their own cartoons or comics -- or just to practice with step-by-step projects. By using the shapes of circles, squares and triangles, the author provides plenty of exercises that will help you draw everything from hands and heads to faces and feet.

Circles help make heads (an oval intersecting with a circle), cartoonishly wide eyes, open mouths, fists, bodies, glasses, and whole people. Triangles can be pointy noses, arched brows, long fingernails, high boots, crowns, lapels, hips and jewelry. And squares can help you make a rugged jaw, a pointing finger, body parts, bags, boxes, and ballerinas.

After reviewing this book, you may find yourself seeking out and finding these shapes in everything, which will help you with making quick sketches. I highly recommend this book for all young (or young-at-heart) artists.

Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square is an odd art guide.

The book has quick pictures of how to turn circles into faces and ultimately entire bodies. It includes how to turn triangles into shoes and both circles and triangles into hands. However, it just shows fully drawn pictures of clothing and accessories like sunglasses with no step-by-step guides. There are only three heads for practice exercises and one dancing couple as an extra credit project at the end of the book. It only covers people though that is not mentioned in the title. It doesn’t seem like enough information for an entire book. I'm also not sure what age group this book is for either.

Overall, Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square was a 2 star disappointment from a publisher that rarely disappoints.

Thanks to Walter Foster Publishing and NetGalley for a digital review copy of the book.

Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square is a beginner manual for drawing simple cartoons.. It is made as easy as possible by using the three basic shapes to develop the characters. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the book would also be suited to older children. A really good starting place for all budding cartoonists out there.

There was a book my family had when I was young about drawing different cartoon characters based on different shapes. Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square reminds me a lot of the book, only with more drawing tips and details. I appreciated how easy the steps were to follow and the explanations of how different shapes can be used for different characters, like using more triangles for villains and more circles/ovals for cuter characters. One section I really appreciated broke down how to draw hands from different angles, as hands tend to be one of the hardest things to draw for a human character. Overall, this was a good instructional book for anyone wanting to get into cartooning and drawing.

This was a lovely and useful book for anyone interested in drawing their own cartoon characters.

The author shows you how we can break any image into shapes to help draw them.

There are many great examples of characters to copy or inspire and the guides are clear and useful.

This is a fun book that does a great job teaching adults or kids how to fairly easily draw cartoon characters with basic shapes. It’s colorful with a diverse cast of possible characters. This is a book I may use at our family’s community arts center and with my own kids. Recommended.

This is a fun fast and easy book to read that I thourally enjoyed, the art style was excellent and I loved all the tips and tricks in the book. this is good as a middle-grade book, with great rep and diversity in the characters and I would love to read through more in the future.