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LEARN Techniques for getting Inspiration & Coming up with Ideas for Funny Jokes & cartoons & comics
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MIDNIGHT COMICS / CARTOONS / JOKES INSPIRATIONS.
A drawing pad and pencil kept at your bed-side (in a handy place), upon which to dot down inspirations that occur to you while insomnia prevails, will relieve your mind greatly, and in many cases soothe you back to sleep.
I don't know what inspirations look like, but I have often been awakened by them. After my kicking over more or less costly bric-a-brac in an effort to find a pencil and paper, my dear wife has assured the children that it was nothing more serious than an inspiration that ailed papa, and that without medical treatment or the aid of a doctor their father's condition would soon be normal—then he would see what a silly goose he was for letting an inspiration disturb him. Upon my word and honor, I'd rather be troubled by skeeters or fleas than inspirations, and so resolved have I to keep a slate and pencil at my bed-side.
"INSPIRATIONS" THAT SEIZE YOU AT NIGHT WILL JAR YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM AND TURN YOUR WIFE'S LOVE INTO OTHER CHANNELS.
In this sketch I have endeavored to show how the long straight lines should be disconnected by other
objects cutting into them.
Observe the following rules when you are designing the background to a drawing. Avoid long straight or curved lines without some object breaking into them. They are inartistic and disturbing to the eye. The accompanying sketch illustrates how you can make your backgrounds interesting.
HOW DO CARTOONISTS AND COMIC ARTISTS COME UP WITH IDEAS?
Well, in various ways and as they come to us. Caricaturist as a rule relies principally upon his own fertile brain for his material.
When his resources become exhausted, which is often the case, then he resorts to ideas which may come in the mail from outside contributors, or suggestions from friends. He sees many ways out of his predicament, as his mind is so thoroughly trained he can cope with any emergency. Every artist has more or less of the so-called emergency material on hand in the rough state. He turns to this, when occasion demands.
DRAWING UP AN IDEA
1. Write out your joke as briefly as possible. 2. Fix the picture in your mind, so that when you look at the blank Bristol-board you can already see your picture upon it (but in your mind). 3. Sketch the picture lightly and with,seme care upon the cardboard with lead pencil, then follow the pencil lines with India ink. When the ink is dry erase the pencil marks. If the sketch is to represent two figures, similar to cut on this page, begin with the two men in the foreground and gradually work toward the background. Make your figures appear as /hough speaking the words of the joke—not with set jaws.