Drawing your own Cartoons

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Why or how should you draw cartoons? I can think of at least 10 reasons.

My main reason for drawing is because it is fun.  While I am still an amateur, I hope to achieve a higher status through continual practice. 

If you really like to draw, here are a few tips that I find motivational:

1.  Display your work on your refrigerator or wall for visitors to see. 

2.  Give a creation to a family member, relative or friend as a gift.  Sometimes the picture itself is fine or you may want to fold it into a greeting card.  Either way, they will love it.

3. Check out ebooks on painting and drawing. I was surprised at the large volume of information.

4.  There are also lots of ebooks on cartooning.

5.  Carry a book and paper with your everywhere and doodle, doodle, doodle.  I sketch on subways, in between classes and while waiting to use a bank machine.

6.  Try marketing your creations or publishing them.  You never know. 

7.  Get a small white board or slate of some sort and doodle during TV commercials. I really enjoy this.

8.  Do you keep a written journal?  Why not add your own illustrative pictures or doodles?   

9.  The internet has mountains of sites on how-to-draw.  To get your exploration in motion, visit the Online Step By Step Drawing section on this lens.

10  YouTube has great how-to-draw cartoon clips.  Just go to YouTube and try a search.

11.  Get a how-to-draw book.  I have listed oceans of books on drawing cartoons and manga in this lens.

12.  Check out some animation, clipart and other graphic sites.  This lens has some links.

 That is all I have for now but if you like drawing, especially cartoons, why not check out some links below?

What is a cartoon? 

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.

The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry.

The somewhat more modern meaning was that of humorous illustrations in magazines and newspapers. Even more recently there are now several contemporary meanings, including creative visual work for print media, for electronic media, and even animated films and animated digital media.

When the word cartoon is applied to print media, it most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon, most of which have captions and do not use speech balloons. The word cartoon is sometimes used to refer to a comic strip.

The artists who draw cartoons are known as cartoonists.

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Great Drawing Ideas 

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How-to-Draw Resources

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

by: Scott Mccloud

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The Animator's Survival Kit

The Animator's Survival Kit

by: Richard Williams

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Preacher Vol. 3: Proud Americans

Preacher Vol. 3: Proud Americans

by: Garth Ennis

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

by: Betty Edwards

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One of My Favourite Books 

Draw 50 Famous Cartoons: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Your Favorite Cartoon Characters (Books for Young Readers)

Draw 50 Famous Cartoons: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Your Favorite Cartoon Characters (Books for Young Readers)

by: Lee J. Ames

Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 07/06/2009) Buy Now

Ebooks on Sketching 

Instructional Ebooks by Andrew Loomis
Andrew Scott has six free dowloads of Loomis' instructional books. I especially like 'Fun with a Pencil' but all of them are great.

What are comics? 

Comics (via Latin, from the Greek "", k?mikos, of or pertaining to "comedy", from k?mos "revel"."comic adjective" The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition). Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Surrey Libraries. 21 April 2008 ) is a graphic medium in which images are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic. It is the sequential nature of the pictures, and the predominance of pictures over words, that distinguish comics from picture books, though there is some overlap between the two media. Most comics combine words with images, often indicating speech in the form of word balloons, but wordless comics, such as The Little King, are not uncommon. Words other than dialogue, captions for example, usually expand upon the pictures, but sometimes act in counterpoint. Teresa Grainger (2004). "Art, Narrative and Childhood" Literacy 38 (1), 66?67. doi:10.1111/j.0034-0472.2004.03801011_2.x

Early precursors of comics as they are known today include Trajan's Column and the work of William Hogarth. By 19th century, the medium as we know it today, began to take form among European and American artists. Comics as a real mass medium started to emerge in the United States in the early 20th century, with the newspaper comic strip, where its form began to be standardized (image-driven, speech balloons etc). The combination of words and pictures proved popular, and quickly spread throughout the world. Comic strips were soon gathered into cheap booklets, comic books, and original comic books soon followed. Today, comics are found in newspapers, magazines, comic books, graphic novels, and on the web.

Although historically the form dealt with humorous subject matter, its scope has expanded to encompass the full range of literary genres. Also see: Comic strip and cartoon. In the anglo-Saxon world, comics are still typically seen as a low art, although there are a few exceptions, such as Krazy KatGilbert Seldes, The 7 Lively Arts, Harper, 1924, ASIN B000M1MMBC and Barnaby. However, such an elitist "low art/high art" distinction doesn't exist in the French-speaking world (and, to some extent, continental Europe), where the bandes dessinées medium as a whole is commonly accepted as "the Ninth Art", is usually dedicated a non-negligible space in bookshops and libraries, and is regularly celebrated in international events such as the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

In the late 20th and early 21st century there has been a movement to rehabilitate the medium. Critical discussions of the form appeared as early as the 1920s,Gilbert Seldes, The 7 Lively Arts, Harper, 1924, ASIN B000M1MMBCMartin Sheridan, Comics and their Creators, Ralph T. Hale and Company, 1942, ASIN B000Q8QGC2 but serious studies were rare until the late 20th century.Dez Skinn, Comic Art Now, Collins Design, 2008, ISBN 978-0061447396.

Although practitioners can eschew any formal constraints, they often use particular forms and conventions to convey narration and speech, or to evoke emotional or sensuous responses. Devices such as speech balloons and boxes are used to indicate dialogue and impart establishing information, while panels, layout, gutters and zip ribbons can help indicate the flow of the story. Comics use of text, ambiguity, symbolism, design, iconography, literary technique, mixed media and stylistic elements of art help build a subtext of meanings.Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, Harper, 1994, ISBN 978-0060976255 Different conventions were developed around the globe, from the manga of Japan to the manhua of China and the manhwa of Korea, the comic books of the United States, and the larger hardcover albums in Europe.

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