“Well, this is more about the philosophy of cartooning than it is a How to Draw book, so it didn’t exactly fit into my project. But I DID have fun with it.
My favorite piece of advice in this whole thing regards stupid characters: Before a stupid character does something stupid, show them thinking about it REALLY hard.
If the stupid character just does something stupid, it might be a little funny, but it’s MUCH funnier if the character thinks about it REALLY HARD. If the character is acting as smart as he possibly can, if this is the character firing on all cylinders, it’s much funnier when he makes a terrible choice.
I guess this is where I announce: I am trying to learn how to draw this year because I want to make my own comics. Nobody is going to let me write THEIR comics. Which I can’t blame them for, I wouldn’t let me write a Hulk story either. There’s absolutely no way the Hulk doesn’t blast someone away with a thundering fart, so…yeah, keep me away.
So I think the only entry into comics for me is going to be writing my own comics, and the only way I’ll get away with that is if I can also draw my own comics.
Lower your expectations. I know they were low to begin with. Keep lowering them.
If everything goes according to plan, by the end of 2024, I’ll have some comics that are pretty enjoyable, mostly people saying, “The art kind of holds it back, but the writing is good. The fart jokes are top notch!”
Maybe I need to come up with a pen name for the “artist” I work with. That way, people will be like, “Let’s get this Peter Derk away from this Drawster Pencilton III guy.””