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Introducing Edward McNaught-Davis’ Cartoons Gallery
Cartoons, these days, are humorous illustrations and generally fall into two types of humorist drawings. Sometimes these are known as funny pictures. They can be used to describe an event or specific happening in a humorous way. Also, they can be used to illustrate a person, as seen in The Minimal Line Lawyer, an animal as depicted by The Drunken Snoring Chicken, a plant or an inanimate object as a caricature and as shown within the selection of my black and white cartoons and colour cartoons.
You can use my Cartoons:
Cartoons, these days, are humorous illustrations and generally fall into two types of humorist drawings. Sometimes these are known as funny pictures. They can be used to describe an event or specific happening in a humorous way. Also, they can be used to illustrate a person, as seen in The Minimal Line Lawyer, an animal as depicted by The Drunken Snoring Chicken, a plant or an inanimate object as a caricature and as shown within the selection of my black and white cartoons and colour cartoons.
You can use my Cartoons:
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For framing and for just hanging on a wall,
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For your Web Site,
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As an Avatar or an Icon,
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To illustrate an Article, Magazine or a Book,
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To enhance a Business Presentation,
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As part of an Animation or Video Production,
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As a Personalised Greeting, Birthday or Seasonal Card,
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As a Poster,
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For an Advertisement or for Special Packaging or for just about anything that involves paper, card or Digital Media.
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Older Cartooning Methods and Modern Humorous Illustration Techniques
The ‘old master’ fine artists, such as Rembrandt, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec would call their under-drawings, to their paintings, as “cartoons” although they weren’t meant to be seen as funny pictures. They were just used as quick charcoal sketches to lay out their painting on the final canvas or panel support.
Modern cartoons are usually static pictures and up and until recently were drawn solely by hand. Either a pen or brush was used together with ink on paper. However, there are no rules and cartoonists would use anything to hand; some preferred to use mixed media such as ink and watercolour or Gouache or crayon and some preferred to use acrylic or oil paints on canvas or panel. My Flying Ace picture has a slight cartoon appeal to it.
All these techniques are still used today by many cartoonists. The more modern approach though is to use suitable digital illustration software on a personal computer (PC). I find it can take me quite a lot longer to illustrate “something” by these digital means but the end result is much cleaner and I will then have a master copy on my PC and which facilitates future alterations.
Employing the use of a PC is a “God send” for animators and their cartoon animations. It saves so much time in production in comparison to the traditional methods. These involved drawing thousands of separate drawings of the same size and where each drawing would show a minute alteration.
I do 2D (two dimensional) Stop Frame Digital Animations and I have a few samples of these on this site. I’m also learning how to do Key Frame Animations but at the moment I don’t have anything worthwhile to show you.
How to Buy an Existing Cartoon from Inspirational Art4u
Please see How to Buy or Contact me
How to Commission a Cartoon, Digital Illustration or Digital Animation from Edward McNaught-Davis of Inspirational Art4u
For commissioning me to hand draw you a bespoke black and white cartoon or hand drawn colour cartoons then please see the page, Commission a Cartoon. For commissioning a digital illustration then please see the page, Commission an Illustration and similarly for a 2D Stop Frame Animation, please see, Commission an Animation. All these pages are still under development so if you have any difficulty then please contact me.