THE IDEA
The drawing is only half of a cartoon, perhaps less. The rest is the ‘idea’.
Where do ideas come from?
Albania, Turkey, Mars ? Who knows. It comes with practice, and this
practice can be learnt.
Take a topic. At this stage keep it basic. Eg it may be a word, which you
will sit and focus on thinking of situations that may be amusing. Don’t
at the moment try to make a ‘joke’. Just visualize amusing situations,
then scribble down the idea in pencil or felt-nib.
For example, these few desert island scenes:
• Take a word, describing a characteristic eg nervous, sad, embarrassed,
sleepy, drunk, in love, impatient, scared, envious, clumsy, nosey, boastful….etc
and combine it with a thing or place or situation; eg cricket,
shopping, cooking, golf, toys, TV, work, the computer, a party, travel...etc.
• Just concentrate on the subject, and you’ll usually find ideas
will ‘pop up’. If you go blank, move on.
• Make up your own subjects.
• Try putting subjects in odd situations.
• Try setting a scene eg cricket, in the past – like caveman days
, or in the future.
• Have fish talking about TV, or the stockmarket or school, etc.
• Turning these situations into ‘jokes’ with words is quite
easy once you’ve taught yourself to create odd situation combinations.
• If you’re using words, keep them simple and to a minimum.
GOOD LUCK
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