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Cartooning – Crazy, Random Pictures & Captions

In this Cartooning course exercise, I came up with some captions based on prompts (“a catchphrase”, “something you said earlier in the day”) and combined the captions with pictures I drew based on an entirely different set of prompts (“the saddest thing in the world,” “something sexy”)

The exercise is structure so there’s no obvious relationship between the captions and images. The fun here is to play around with the words and pictures to see if you can come up with some good combinations. Here “good” means if not funny at least it evokes some kind of emotional response.

See what you think:

angryladylessperfume Just Do It nextthingyouknow sadkitty_goddamnitlaundry_CoffeeshopBraszombie

baby

 

By the way if these are confusing or don’t make sense, don’t worry. They don’t necessarily make sense to me either!

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Cartooning – 100 Pictograms

I’m doing the lessons in Ivan Brunetti’s wonderful book, Cartooning.  Last year I saw a cover Brunutti created for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I was hooked on his simple but highly expressive style.

This is exercise 1.3 which asks you to create 100 quick sketches based on whatever work or idea pops in your head spending no more than 5 seconds per drawing. Coming up with 100 drawings, even based on my stream of consciousness was a lot harder than I expected partly because I only drew things I thought I could draw competently.

Here’s the original:

Cartooning Exercise 1.3

Click here to see the full-sized picture.

And I used Photoshop to get the checkerboard effect which I think is really cool. (The book doesn’t encourage the use of the computer at the beginning but I liked Brunetti’s grid so much I had to try it).

Cartooning Exercise 1.3.2

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