{"id":1630,"date":"2010-12-09T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2010-12-05T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T13:58:14","slug":"doodling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/doodling\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A doodle\/sletch I created for a New year's Eve comic strip. it's been in my doodle pile for years. I still haven't used it, but ya never know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It sounds cliche, but the question most often asked of cartoonists really is, “Where do you get your ideas?”\u00a0 I get the question quite often myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Answering it always makes for a fun discussion with a reader or comic fan.\u00a0 And there’s no way to answer it definitively. The idea process for just about anything created in the arts or industry takes many different paths.<\/p>\n

Similarly,\u00a0 my ideas for my comic strip and other features come about in a variety of ways.\u00a0 I get ideas through observation, scanning newspapers and news sites on the web, playing around with a word combination or famous phrase, and having things just pop into my head (the easiest and best way to get an idea, by the way).<\/p>\n

But\u00a0 the main method I use is to just sit down and start doodling. I grab a pen or pencil and start sketching my characters or other cartoon figures.\u00a0 I just sort of let go and let the pencil take me away.\u00a0 Sometimes when I start a drawing, I really don’t know where it’s leading.\u00a0 It may not amount to much at all.\u00a0 Or, it may offer a spark of inspiration that leads to a final comic strip or comic panel.<\/p>\n

And these doodles become pretty valuable. I have piles of them sitting next to my drawing table. If I like a doodle or sketch, but it doesn’t bring forth an idea, I’ll put it in a pile and tuck it away for awhile.\u00a0 It may be months later that I’ll come across the doodle. Looking at it a second or third time may be the moment that a completed comic strip idea comes into focus.\u00a0 Or, I may add to the doodle and tuck it away once more.<\/p>\n

The frustrating part of the process arethe times I don’t makea quick dodle or sketch.\u00a0 I’ve had many an idea evaporate because i failed to put it down on paper.\u00a0 i tel myself that I’ll remember the idea,but later when I try to recall it, it’s gone. maybe gone forever.<\/p>\n

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This doodle eventually became a Double Take comic game panel.I haven't thrown it away because I like the sketchy purity of the drawing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Over the years, I’ve learned to never let an idea go.\u00a0 I try to jot it down immediately.\u00a0 When I get back to the studio, I pull out the papers from my pockets and go through the various doodles.\u00a0 I then draw ’em up or put ’em in my doodle piles.<\/p>\n

I think the next step in this process is to take it into the digital age.\u00a0 I really need to start scanning these doodles and tag them with key words.\u00a0 Many graphics catalog\/browser programs do this.\u00a0 Linux has several like GQview<\/a> and Digikam<\/a> that allow you to browse and tag image files. Tagging images allow you to search by the keyword.<\/p>\n

But, I still like grabbing the pile and going through the sketches and doodles one by one.\u00a0 Sometimes, it’s a nice break from the computer screen to just sit back in my studio chair and thumb through a pile of thumbnails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It sounds cliche, but the question most often asked of cartoonists really is, “Where do you get your ideas?”\u00a0 I get the question quite often myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Answering it always makes for a fun discussion with a reader or comic fan.\u00a0 And there’s no way to answer it definitively. The idea process for just about anything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,60,22,21,15,9],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-double-take","tag-drawing-george","tag-george-comic-strip","tag-inspiration","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}