Chewing Pencils

Here’s a question from Mat Threadgill of Texas:
Hello from Texas! I am an aspiring political cartoonist. I’ve always enjoyed political and social satires, and have recently taken the step of concepting and developing my own cartoons. Right now it’s a hobby, but I’d really love to try to get some of my work published. But, […]

Only one week to go for you to enter your submission for the very first Chewing Pencils Group Drawing Project!
See the details and the submissions so far here.

Method 2:- Using an Agent
Contrary to what you might hear, there are still plenty of people looking for cartoonists to produce work for them. One of the biggest hurdles they often face though, is actually finding one they like. Some clients don’t have either the time or the inclination to put the effort into ringing […]

There’s just over a week to go for you to enter your submissions for the Chewing Pencils Group Drawing Project!
I’ve had a few people say that a Christmas theme combined with the word ‘blog’ in a cartoon is harder than they thought. Don’t stress too much - take a pad of paper and a pencil and […]

This arrived in my inbox from Pete Ridley:

I do some drawing in my spare time. I’m not too fussed that it goes anywhere even if it’s just up on the wall. My question though is if such was to happen in the future I feel that I should aspire to getting the skills that that […]

We’ve got some lightning fast pencils out there - submissions for the drawing project have started to come in already! I’ll keep a main list in the original post, but will post new submissions as they come in.
In case you missed it, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger fame has agreed to pick a winning submission from […]

Some good news on the group drawing project…
Darren Rowse, founder of ProBlogger and b5media, has agreed to ‘judge’ what he thinks is the best Christmas/blog cartoon. There’s a good chance he’ll feature the winning submission on his ProBlogger site, which will bring a flood of traffic your way if you’re successful.
So, read the rules again […]

Submissions for this project are now closed. Surf to this post to see the winning entry.
I’ve said a few times now that a cartoonist needs to be thinking a couple of months in advance when producing work to sell. The aim of this project is to get you thinking about some Christmas cartoons and possible […]

My boys are growing up way to fast for my liking.
They’re growing up too fast for my wallet’s liking too!
Last week we had to, again, go out and buy some new shoes as once little feet were no longer fitting into little shoes. There was some screaming and a few tantrums, but in the end […]

Back in this post, I confessed to being a little bit bored with my style. While it had evolved slowly over the years, I felt like I wanted to do something a bit differently.
So I decided to give water colour a go. Not real water colour, but it’s digital equivalent using Corel’s Painter software. I […]