Cartoonists And Digital Drawing

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Digital Drawing

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Cartoon drawing is an old concept and has become a rather integral aspect of our life. However, you need to know that this artwork is not only used to provide comic relief among is audiences. It is also used to display some meaningful information in a comical funny way.

It is not an easy task to become a cartoonist. Not every painter possesses the ability to draw cartoons from real life characters. If proper knowledge is not there, then it becomes really a tough task to carry on with this part of the art activity. Often, people refer to rough sketches as cartoons, but in reality it is not so. Some cartoons may seem rough – but are usually examples of very sophisticated art technique.

During earlier eras, these art works (cartoons) were created through the use of the artist’s hands, but things have changed drastically nowadays – now there is digital drawing. Which is good news for those cartoonists who have a challenge with drawing by hand.

With the invention of the computer and a wide range of software tools, the task has been transferred from pencil to keyboard and mouse movements. Digital drawing as well as painting (coloring) has arrived to displace the age old analog techniques.

With the introduction of the digital medium, the task has become relatively easier to undergo. Newer software tools, as well the upgraded systems, have made the task of the cartoonist easier and much faster.

More options to make the art work a lot more attractive are also now available – specialty shading and whiting out – special colorization methods, etc. And revision work, with a variety of saved versions, can be done with little difficulty – once you learn the software program of your choice.

Of course, printing your artwork is easier, or sending it to an editor or publishing it online can be accomplished through your computer or other digital device.

Does this mean that you should give up your sketchpad? No! But taking your “jotted down” ideas and sketches and turning them into published work can be enhanced by digital means. And for those cartoonists who lack the finer degrees of drawing skills, digital software tools can help you overcome those barriers and create very accomplished artwork.

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A Career As A Cartoonist

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A cartoonist is an artist, who specializes in cartooning. The job of a cartoonist is to create comic characters and objects to put into books, manga, anime, and editorial cartoons. They participate in comic strip creation as well as animated movies. A cartoonist has a talent for sketching, caricaturing or making replica images. They love to draw, roughly in pencil first, then in ink and colors. They can put their thought on a paper at any point of time. Cartoonists work for print media, electronics and web media.

Now, to get an actual job, as a cartoonist, you’re going to need to do several things. It helps, if you’ve ever had your work published before. It doesn’t have to be anything too special, in fact it can be something as simple as a community newsletter or church newspaper. Just having this type of work will upgrade your status in the eyes of the newspaper editor and make it seem like you know what you’re doing.

It also helps to put together a portfolio.

Gather a collection of your best work in a nicely laid out binder. Bring this to an interview with a newspaper editor or wherever you applying for a cartoonist job. You’re trying to show off your very best work here, so put your highest quality material up front.

As you prepare your portfolio for your cartoonist career, write and illustrate the things that you think about and observe. Especially those things that make you laugh. And the things that make you cry. Or that make you angry. Consider your sketchbook a sort of brain dump where you unload everything you’re thinking about. It doesn’t always have to be funny at this point – that can come later in Cartoon Brainstorming sessions. The things you record don’t even have to make sense to anyone, but you (and they don’t even have to make sense to you!). They are just going to be there, waiting to spark an idea when you go back through your work.

And be sure to date the pages occasionally. That makes it nice when you go back through them over the years and can pinpoint the day when you were thinking this and that.

The start-up cost is extremely minimal. Chances are you can launch your career with stuff you already have in your house, or can easily steal from the office (just kidding). You’ll need some drawing paper and a pen. Add some large manila envelopes for mailing in submissions and a few bucks for postage, and that’s really all the investment you absolutely have to make.

If you really want to splurge, you could buy some pencils for doing up roughs, and maybe some page-sized cardboard inserts to help prevent your submission packages from getting bent up in the mail, but those luxuries should be considered optional.

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