Do you ever wish that you could just sit down to draw...
...but life somehow ends up getting in the way?
You’ve probably got a drawer somewhere with a half-used drawing pad in it, or a drawing app on your tablet that you’ve barely used.
If you’re like many other folks, you’ve got various art books laying on your shelves bought with the intention of trying them out, but now sitting there unopened and slowly gathering dust.
Maybe you’ve even signed up for a course and stopped part way through...or not even started in it the first place.
You might even feel a bit bad about not getting around to draw, but still it seems difficult to pick up a pencil. For all our best intentions, it can be really hard to start something, and even if we do so, to keep going.
And if there’s too much to do then we don’t even feel like starting in the first place.
Sometime we might actually manage to sit down, only to find that we don’t know what to draw...
‘Aaaah! Why can’t I just sit down and do this?’
You might have even asked yourself ‘Why do I always stop and start things?....Why don’t I stick to things?’
It sounds simple - draw for a few minutes everyday - but the reality is we often forget to do things despite our best intentions.
And we usually try to do all of this without the aid of a system to back us up.
The trouble with most things we want to learn is making it a habit and sticking to it.
It helps to have a constant reminder of what we have to do, and to keep on doing it.
It would be good to have an easy-to-follow system that will help you get cartooning on a regular basis. A system that gives you little bite-sized chunks of information that are easy to try out for yourself.
Everyone is busy, however, everyone has a minute and this is where Cartoon Minute comes in.
Introducing Cartoon Minute
Cartoon Minute provides you with a daily exercise and a reminder to keep drawing.
A cartoon is a combination of an image and the idea, so Cartoon Minute provides you with simple daily exercises on one of these areas. So you get to work on your idea generation skills, as well as your drawing.
Coming up with ideas for cartoons isn’t magic, but it does require consistent practice. Improving your cartooning skills is also equally unmagical but it a a lot easier to do when sticking to a regular system.
The emphasis is on simple, quick to do exercises, hence the name ‘Cartoon Minute’. You can of course expand on some of the ideas and take them a lot further, but the main idea is to get you doing quick drawings on a daily basis.
Let’s look at a couple of examples.
As you can see, the instructions are short and to the point - and the exercise doesn’t take long to complete.
Every week you will be a summary of the weekly exercises. So if you miss a day or two, you can catch up whenever you’ve got time.
Here is an example.
Every week there is a different theme.
here are some examples:
using colour
drawing backgrounds
cats, dogs
facial expressions
First establish the habit, mastery will come in time
It’s important to first establish a habit and do it for a while, before developing it.
Cartoon Minute is designed to get you doodling everyday, but if life really does get in the way, then you can catch up, or pick up the pace again when you get chance. As well as a daily email, Monday to Friday, you’ll also get a weekly summary you can use to go anything you might have missed.
Not only that, but there’s also a monthly round up.
So basically, you get lots of reminders to help you keep drawing.
I’m not sure that I’ve got time to do this everyday, what if I fall behind?
You can catch up at any point with the daily emails. There’s also the weekly summary email if you want to save all the exercises for one go. There’s no course schedule that you have to keep up.
I can’t draw! Can I still do this?
You don’t have to be a great artist. If you’ve ever doodled a few faces on a scrap of paper, then you’re good to go.
So give me another minute, and let’s get you started.
Add your name and mail to the orange box below, and I’ll send you further details.
