ABSTRACT
Cartooning is a significant interpretive and artistic part of the scenic artist's work: as the image is being enlarged, many decisions have to be made about detail and motif. Cartooning precedes painting, in most cases, and gives the scenic artist a reference for the painting on the surface of scenery. The tools for cartooning fall into three categories: measuring, drawing, and transferring. Preparation for cartooning starts with a thorough reading of the information supplied by the scenic designer. An architectural layout is a very direct approach to cartooning an image. Cartooning with a grid involves creating a frame a reference over an image as an alternative to the architectural layout. In cartooning scenery, linear perspective, along with the grid method and architectural layout, provides a useful way to reproduce and enlarge a line drawing. Linear perspective is predicated on the perception that straight lines of vertical and horizontal planes converge to a single point on the horizon.
