Today’s 64 Million artist challenge is an excellent opportunity for me to show you some cartooning techniques – Set by Nathan Mann the challenge is called 10 Minute storytelling.
Here is an example of a cartoon that I created this year. It’s based on my hospital radio show and is part of an on-air conversation from one of my shows. The work has been created on A3 paper but the final cartoon was published at A5. The colours used were added in a digital computer programme and they are very simply applied.
So how do you start a comic strip?
Nathan Mann has given us some great ideas to start a story by thinking about character and the space the characters live in. Nathan also uses a DOTS formula (Desire, Obstacle, tactic and success) to create his story. So I will use the same and create a four panel cartoon.
First the subject and character. The character is going to be me and produced very simply using these intense blocks.
So let’s build the story using the dots formula.
Desire is to keep fit by running
Obstacle will be the weather
Tactic will be a coat
Success will be wearing the coat while running.
Here’s the tutorial video.
This is the final cartoon, very simple drawn!
