I’ve always wanted to write comic strips. I’ve even dared to dream of having my comic strip (if and when i have one) syndicated and appear in several newspapers.
Theres only two problems: a. I suck at drawing and b. i cant come up with anything even remotely funny. Thats like a man with no limbs trying to ride a bicycle.
I can draw a masterpiece during a moment of inspiration but i will never be able to recreate the same piece again. I cant even draw the same stickman twice.
Do i have any hope?
I would like to hear from fellow aspiring artists who suck at what they want to do.
Heard about some unsung artists on NPR (National Public Radio), one of them does'nt know that his work is art and is homeless...Another artist only uses circles to draw his art. He wants to draw circles of every human being that ever lived. It's pretty cool methinks.
Moral of the story: Don't let your inability to draw well or lack of training from doing what you WANT to do. Lot of desis are goal-matool anyway, so just stick with circles and draw away your strip. Once you do win your Pulitzer, credit me for inspiring to greater heights. : D
You will get your cut of the prize money and a lot of other luxury items.
I do understand that in today's comics you can get away by scribbling a few lines and put them together to represent something. The tricky part is being consistent in scribbling those lines. And to keep doing that time and again with different variations as per requirement.
I guess hard work and practice cannot be ruled out so easily.
Looks fine. Give it some structure, select some ‘charactes’ from the sketches. Pick a theme – there is no shortage of that just look around goop shoop – and have chara interact.
cappy ..your pic look fine, youve got the basis of the facial expressions right
draw your little man with a back ground and look at it from a distance..or go away for five mins and then come back have a look
you can also get books on how to draw cartoons
your pics remind a little me of the drawings done by quentin blake in the roald dahl books
