So you want to be a Cartoonist?

Simon Lake at 23h05
18
Mar
2010
So you want to be a Cartoonist?

First of all, you need a pencil. Oh and paper. It's the cheapest start up business for miles. But then there's pencils and there is paper. It's worth getting decent paper to finish artwork instead of that copier paper stuff. A 2 or 3B works as well.
If you can't draw then that's not a problem for now. All you need is "confidence". And reference.
Whenever I am presented with a new cartooning challenge, the first thing I do is goog
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