Drawing

To follow up on the Doodle first Caption first cartoon argument, here is John O’Brien. He ponders the question of no caption, though I figure no caption belongs in the Doodle first school. Cool to see the process evolve through quick working drawings.

O’Brien writes:

I’m definitely a doodle-firster, as I’m very much a visual person, and my cartoons are mostly captionless. I begin with an inkling of something on paper. It could be a common image, an inanimate object, a visual pun, a cliché, or whatever.

I move from one thumbnail sketch to another, adding and subtracting elements, until it morphs into something, often totally different from my original concept, that I think is funny and worthy of submission.

It might develop quickly, but often it takes weeks or months of bouncing around in my sketchbook before it works.

The illustration below shows my process for this idea.

September 26, 2012 2

Narrative Corpse two

2 of ∞

September 20, 2012 2

Another Ching Chong Bing Bong

Directions in previous post

August 22, 2012 0

More Ching Chong Bing Bong

See previous post for instructions

August 17, 2012 0

Another Drawing Game. Ching Chong Bing Bong

Another drawing game attempted at a Drink and Draw session at friends’ place. Introduced to me under the title “Ching Chong Bing Bong,” feel free to call it what you want as some think this title appears suggestively racist.

Everybody starts by writing a phrase on the top sheet of a stack of paper and then passing the entire stack including the phrase to the person on their right. Everyone reads the received phrase and puts that sheet on the bottom of the stack. On the blank sheet in from to you draw a picture responding to the phrase. Pass right and write a phrase responding to the picture. Pass right and repeat. Hardest part of this game is giving a group of people directions. Read the following left to right top to bottom.