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Marshall Ramsey ‘Live Blogs’ his process for creating a cartoon
Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger, “live blogged” his cartooning yesterday.
Today, I am going to show you, real time, how I draw a cartoon. It may be as exciting as watching paint dry to you, but it will give you an idea of the process I go through every day. You will see tomorrow’s as it goes from sketch to the finished piece of art.
- 11:08 a.m. The Box
- 11:35 The first go at it
- 12:05 Much better
- 12:49 Distractions
- 1:04 Update
- 1:29 The Devil is in the details
- 1:39 Bored yet?
- 2:11 Almost there
- 2:35 Ready to color
- 2:53 Color so far
- 3:01 You decide on the wall color
- 3:28 Done
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Community Comments
June/21/2007 @ 8:25 am
Glad to see others do this, I did one of these back in May. It was pretty cool letting the cartoon fans interact with me during the process. I thought for sure the readers would of lost interest but they stuck around until the toon was finished.
June/21/2007 @ 8:36 am
Ooops, my bad. That was in April when I did this live cartooning last.
June/21/2007 @ 8:39 am
MJ - Please feel free to post a link to it. I’d be interested in checking it out.
June/21/2007 @ 2:34 pm
I threw the link on my moniker MJ up there^ This wasn’t the greatest toon kind of made it simple and quick to keep the readers tooned in.
June/22/2007 @ 8:09 am
Thanks for these two looks at the cartoon process. I wish more writers would give us this kind of intimate look at their work. It demystifies the whole experience, and it’s inspiring too.
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