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Introducing Edward McNaught-Davis’ Funny Inspirational 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 Funny Inspirational Cartoons:
- For framing and for just hanging on a wall,
- For your Web Site,
- As an Avatar or an Icon,
- To illustrate an Article, Magazine or a Book,
- To enhance a Business Presentation,
- As part of an Animation or Video Production,
- As a Personalised Greeting, Birthday or Seasonal Card,
- As a Poster,
- For an Advertisement or for Special Packaging or for just about anything that involves
paper, card or Digital Media.
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.
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McNaught-Davis of Inspirational Art4u
