Cartooning Course
Cartooning is a fun-filled course for anyone who wants to be a cartoonist. The course helps you to develop your own style of drawing. It increases your abilities, helps you create original ideas, and get published.
You don't need any formal art training or special drawing skills. The course is for complete beginners and also for those wanting to develop their skills. There are lots of practical exercises, tips and advice, and ten tutor-marked assignments.
As an essential ingredient of the course, you receive personal tuition from a successful, professional cartoonist.
You'll learn how to draw comic strips, caricatures, and how to produce a strip-cartoon and illustrations.
Course Modules
Module 1
Tools of the trade and your Workspace. Cartoon Drawing - the basics, the face, head, hands and feet. Assignment No. 1.
Module 2
Creating a cartoon file. Using the stick method to draw cartoon figures. Action lines! Introduction to the history of cartooning. Assignment No. 2.
Module 3
Clothing and props in cartoons. Animals. Stereotypes. Developing your cartoon file. Assignment No. 3.
Module 4
How to create your own ideas bank, to produce gags and humorous situations for your cartoons. Using your cartoon file. The three basic cartoon formats. Assignment No. 4.
Module 5
The art of caricature and techniques. Checklist of features to exaggerate. A brief history of caricature. Assignment No. 5.
Module 6
How to price your work. National Union rates for freelancers. The market for cartoons including niche and hidden outlets for your work. Assignment No 6.
Module 7
Looking at further markets for your cartoons. Studying magazines and market research. Speculative approaches. Keeping track of your work - how to set up your own filing system. Assignment No.7.
Module 8
The comic strip. Characters and locations. Introducing conflict between characters to illustrate humour. Lettering and layout. How to market your comic strips. Approaching editors- the need for persistence. Assignment No. 8.
Module 9
The greetings card market. Necessity for research. How to approach publishers and present your work. Assignment No 9.
Module 10
The ownership of artwork and First Publishing Rights explained. Using colour in your cartoons. The market is there for them! Building on your skills acquired throughout this course. And specialising. The route to success. Assignment No. 10.
Programme Schedule |
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| Normal Track | |
| Course Duration: | 45 days |
| Schedule: | 1 Hour/5 days a week |
| Fast Track | |
| Course Duration: | 25 Days |
| Schedule: | 2 Hour/5 days a week |