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Make it interesting
In today’s competitive market, a cartoonist can’t get very far without imagination. A picture may be drawn with painstaking correctness and still be uninteresting. To be uninteresting is the greatest crime a cartoonist can commit.
When composing your panel, don’t just draw your subject so that it is recognizable. Think: can you include some action or a different viewpoint that will be exciting to the reader’s eye? Perspective, action, background — all the elements of cartooning most be considered as ingredients that can help you make interesting compositions.
Contact points
Confusion in a drawing is had unless your idea deliberately calls for it. If you allow two elements or lines to touch in a picture (such lines are called tangents) you create the illusion that both are the same distance from the reader — although one may be in the foreground and the other in the background. This impair_ the feeling of depth in the cartoon. Accidental points of contact hit the eye the way sour notes hit the ear. The two drawings below show some visual crimes of this type and how to avoid them.
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Can you tell me the proportions (in Cm) for drawing a daily weekday newspaper comic strip? (Also the bigger Sunday strip)
I don’t know what to do it on???
You might want to buy a large drawing pad, that is what I used to use.