Cartoonist Legal, Social & Cultural Professionals

The techniques to create a visual representation of ideas and messages.

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The Art of Cartooning

David Mostyn

2018

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Legislation describing the protection of the rights of original authors over their work, and how others can use it.

Adapt to different types of media such as television, movies, commercials, and others. Adapt work to type of media, scale of production, budget, genres within type of media, and others.

Consult with the editor of a book, magazine, journal or other publications about expectations, requirements, and progress.

Draw sketches to prepare for a drawing or as a standalone artistic technique.

Developing new artistic concepts and creative ideas.

Interpret and meet requirements and expectations, as discussed and agreed upon with the customers.

Follow current events in politics, economics, social communities, cultural sectors, internationally, and in sports.

Maintain portfolios of artistic work to show styles, interests, abilities and realisations.

Study various media sources such as broadcasts, print media, and online media in order to gather inspiration for the development of creative concepts.

Analyse texts to be illustrated; researching and checking sources.

Develop animated narrative sequences and story lines, using computer software and hand drawing techniques.

Communicate with clients, editors and authors in order to interpret and fully understand their professional needs.

Share humourous expressions with audience, eliciting laughter, surprise, other emotions, or a combination thereof.

Select the appropriate style, medium, and techniques of illustration in line with the needs of the project and client's requests.

The creation of documents using page layout skills on a computer. Desktop publishing software can generate layouts and produce typographic quality text and images.

The methods, procedures and techniques pertaining to the operation of multimedia systems, usually a combination of software and hardware, presenting various types of media such as video and audio.

The characteristics, use and operations of various software products such as computer programmes and application software.

Apply desktop publishing techniques and software to create page layouts and typographic quality text.

Produce a drawing by using a range of digital tools.

Apply a variety of visual techniques in order to design graphic material. Combine graphical elements to communicate concepts and ideas.

Edit various types of images such as analogue and digital photographs or illustrations.

Use computer-aided design (CAD) systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.

Create drawings using digital illustration programmes and techniques.

Write captions to accompany cartoons, drawings, and photographs. These captions can be humorous or explanatory.

Create original drawings, based on texts, thorough research and discussion with authors, journalists and specialists.

Create drawings using traditional illustration techniques such as watercolour, pen and ink, airbrush art, oil painting, pastels, wood engraving, and linoleum cuts.