Category: Conversations

  • Insta-Distraction

    Why aren’t you cartooning? “I’ve been keeping up to date with my Instagram feed.”  I don’t care who you’ve been feeding. You should be cartooning.   “But Mum there’s so much stuff to look at on here.” Gordon Bennett! Give me strength.

  • Instagram

    “I forget to tell you that I joined Instagram.” What’s Instagram?  “I’ll tell you later, Mum.”  

  • Another Challenge

    “I finished Inktober… and I think I need to start a new challenge.” Everything’s a challenge. “Mum, I mean a drawing challenge.” So what are you going to do then? “Folktale Week … It runs from the 4th November to 10th with a daily prompt for an illustration.” What are the prompts? “Mmmn … They are … Home – Secret…

  • Boiled Rabbit

    How you getting on with that rabbit cartoon? And that boiling line business? “I think I overcooked it. You can definitely over-boil your line. That must be the art. How much to boil. But I found another video tutorial about line boil by an animator called Micah Buzan. It’s very useful. Only now I think…

  • Back to the Animating Board

    “That’s it. No more drawings of heads. Time for me to animate something.” Jolly good, dear. What’s your cartoon going to be about? “Well I dreamed of a rabbit the other night. It wasn’t in good shape and I picked it up to take it home and look after it. But it grew and grew…