Five weeks, four sketches per week:
Don’t Chase Shiny Objects
It looks like the magpie has bitten off more than it can chew!
There’s something a little Escher-esque about the piano…can you spot what it is?
Modern Wisdom 100,000 Subscribers
Here’s a cartoon I drew to celebrate the Modern Wisdom podcast hitting 100,000 subscribers.
Every week I choose one of the episodes to illustrate some key points from.
Kitchen Sink Cartoons
You may have heard of a kitchen sink drama, well here are a pair of kitchen sink cartoons.
Caption The Cartoon!
Here’s a recent pic.
What do you think the caption should be for this cartoon?
Let me know in the message section below.
Ocean Liner Cartoons
I’ve always loved the look of ocean liners, so I thought I’d put together a short compilation of ocean liner cartoons.
The liner featured in the above cartoon was indeed a beauty. The Normandie is regarded by many as the most beautiful liner ever built.
This one wasn’t intended to be any particular liner, however, I thought that the black of the hull would make for a very striking backdrop.
This one features the Queen Mary 2, which is the only ocean liner left in the world. This image, and the previous one, were used to illustrate some key points from episodes of the Modern Wisdom Podcast.
Illustrated Podnotes - Dr Zach Bush MD - Why We Shouldn’t Aim For A New Normal
These are some illustrated podnotes to go with the Modern Wisdom Podcast - How To Not Start an Online Business.
In this episode, host Chris Williamson talks with Jonny from Propane Fitness. Here are Chris’s notes introducing the podcast:
Dr Zach Bush MD is a physician and educator specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care.
The last 12 months have been a challenge. Everyone has come up against difficulties and can't wait to get back to some sense of normality, but by aiming for normal, are we missing out on an opportunity to become something better?
Expect to learn how to deal with a loss of meaning and identity during global crises, why unity and conformity are not the same thing, how losing diversity in the global microbiome is related to our immune system and much more...
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Cartoon Background Challenge - Inside The House
This is week two of the cartoon Background challenge I’m currently involved in.
Here is the breakdown of the challenge:
Five weeks, four sketches per week:
Week 1. Outside the house (may vary different sizes and/or types of homes)
Week 2. Inside the house (can be in the same or different rooms)
Week 3. In the city
Week 4. Park or countryside
Week 5. Wilderness or jungle
Each week focuses on different approaches to the location such as:
-high view
-low view
-close up
-wide angle
The goal is pushing ourselves to get out of our default approach to backgrounds that we draw, and to sketch a whole bunch of different backgrounds.
Thanks to David Greene for joining in the challenge.
Mouse-Eye View
This is the initial rough sketch that the cartoon at the top of the page was based on.
Caption Practice
Seeing as I created the cartoon, it seemed like a good opportunity to do some caption practice as well.
The mouse had been working out.
It wasn’t what Tigger expected to emerge from the mousehole
She never expected the dog to do that
Look what the cat didn’t drag in
She was pretty certain that mice shouldn’t get that big
It looked like the mouse had brought reinforcements
The cat encounters the Roomba for the first time.
View From Bottom Of Kitchen Sink
Given my tendency to insert monsters and strange thingies into cartoons, I thought this would be an interesting cartoon to try out.
Here’s the finished version. I never got around to decided what the thingy lurking at the bottom of the sink was…
To try to simulate the effect of looking through the water at the woman, I warped the layer a bit.
Combining Ideas To Create Dog Cartoons
A while ago I was involved in a cartoon idea generating challenge.
Myself and the other participant each chose a topic that we wanted to produce ideas about. In my cases it was dogs; in his, houses.
We each used our topic as a base element to which we added a different element to every day.
Here is the list of daily elements I’m going to show today:
Office
Typhoon
Rain
Glasses
Here are a few of the cartoons that I came up. The main point was to generate lots of ideas, rather than to produce many polished cartoons.
Dogs and Office
The dog vs cat theme has been an ongoing source of ideas in this series.
That’s probably happened at some point on a ‘bring your pet to work’ day.
It’s always interesting to ponder how working breeds could be given new roles.
Dogs and Typhoon
They’re at it again…
Dogs and Rain
Always great fun to draw spaniels!
Dogs and Glasses
I’ve been drawing a few Bloodhounds recently, so this would a good excuse to doodle another one.
I initially thought of glasses, as in drink ones, but then I thought about eyeglasses as well.
Drawing ‘Floating Downstream’
I drew this cartoon as part of a series of images to go with the Modern Wisdom podcast episode - Dr Zach Bush MD - ‘Why We Shouldn’t Aim For A New Normal’.
In this article I’m going to breakdown the steps in drawing the cartoon.
Outlining The Background
I used a canyon both to tue in with the caption and also to use as a frame for Gerald the Goat, who will appear in a moment.
Adding The Character
I’m probably going to adjust Gerald in the final picture, he’s just here as a reference.
Colouring The Background
I’ve now started to colour the background, using the watercolour tool in Procreate set at 10% opacity and then gradually building up up the tones. You can see the palette I used.
Doubling The Background Colour Layer
After building up the intensity of the background colours, I decided it would be easier to simply double the layer for a more intense effect.
Colouring The Sky And Moutains
To show the far off mountains, I used purple at 10% opacity.
Adding The River
To portray the rapidly flowing river, I used the turpentine tool as I really like the way you can use it to show flowing water.
Where’s That Goat?
Gerald’s white, so no colouring there other than to add some grey to the his furthest away legs and belly. The log was coloured with the watercolour tool.
The Finished Cartoon
I zoomed in a bit on the original sketch and that’s that. It was a fun one to draw!
Creating ‘Hitching A Ride’
In this article I’m going to go through how I came up with this cartoon. Every week I put together some illustrations to go with an episode of the Modern Wisdom podcast. One of the episodes was ‘How Not To Start An Online Business’.
As part of this picture I drew a Catalina flying boat, a WW2 airplane that is still used today in a variety of roles. In the above illustration you can see it overflying the Queen Mary 2 liner.
Having spent some time drawing the Catalina, and liking the look of how it came out, I thought that it would be neat to use it again in another cartoon, perhaps with a more central role.
Splicing Together Cartoons
The first thing that came to mind was another cartoon featuring a different ocean liner, this time the Normandie from the 1930s. I thought I’d try combining the two characters from the this cartoon, along with the Catalina.
Swapping The Characters
I could have kept the same two characters, and even used the original characters, however, I thought it would be more interesting to try a new character. Originally it was a seagull squatting on top of the seals head, so I thought I’d have one feature in the new cartoon.
A Glutch Of Gulls?
After that I thought why fly under your own steam, when you could catch a ride from the seaplane, so I decided to add a gull standing on a wing float, and add another gull to the original one looking on.
Flipping The Gulls
The pair of floating gulls, lets call them Stan and Dot for ease of reference, weren’t quite looking in the right direction, and while I could have adjusted their heads, thought it would be better to flip them over to the other side of the picture.
The gulls are now looking towards their mate, however, I found that the hitch-hiking gull, let’s call him Bob, was merging with the white of the underside of the wing, and easily got lost in the picture.
A Change Of Livery
The easiest way around this was to darken the plan and remove as much white as possible as not to distract the attention away from Bob. As well as Stan and Dot’s beaks guiding the viewer’s eye towards Bob, I also changed the red and white stripes on the tail plane from horizontal to vertical to help direct attention.
The Finished Cartoon
And here is the finished cartoon. I won’t be surprised if I end up recycling the Catalina again, and I’m highly likely to draw it again from another angle.
Airplane Cartoons
I thought put together a mini-collection of assorted airplane cartoons that I’ve draw over the last year or so.
The above cartoon features the Gee-Bee, a racing plane from the 1930s.
The Finnish Glider
I created the Finnish Glider as part of my ongoing series of Lesser-Known dog breeds.
Notable owners include the pioneering aviatrix Betty De Havilland who was accompanied by her dog Roger on her trans-Himalayan flight.
Illustration For Modern Wisdom Podcast
This one I created to illustrate a series of podnotes on the Modern Wisdom Podcast - How Not To Create An Online Business.
Caption The Cartoon!
A while ago I took part in a caption challenge where I had to post cartoons and then think of as many different captions as possible to go with them. Here are a few that accompanied the above cartoon.
1. Takes all the fun out of it.
2. Think how big the egg must have been.
3. Maybe we should take it for a change.
4. How come we never see it trying to eat anything?
5. Where on earth does it nest?
6. Remind me to teach the new hatchlings that eagles and turbofan blades don’t mix.
7. What do you reckon it eats?
8. I still can’t work out how it does that...
9. That’s defying the laws of physics!
10. Man isn’t supposed to do that.
Cartoon Background Challenge - Outside The House
She never had enough space to run around when we lived in London
I’m currently involved in a challenge with a fellow cartoonist to work on our backgrounds.
We chose a five-week timeframe, with a different topic each week.
Here is the breakdown of the challenge:
Five weeks, four sketches per week:
Week 1. Outside the house (may vary different sizes and/or types of homes)
Week 2. Inside the house (can be in the same or different rooms)
Week 3. In the city
Week 4. Park or countryside
Week 5. Wilderness or jungle
Each week focuses on different approaches to the location such as:
-high view
-low view
-close up
-wide angle
The goal is pushing ourselves to get out of our default approach to backgrounds that we draw, and to sketch a whole bunch of different backgrounds.
Thanks to David Greene for joining in the challenge.
High View
I fancied drawing some sort of scene featuring a bird or two flying by, so I thought this fit the bill.
I’m a big fan of pelicans, and as they’re such enigmatic birds, thought I’d have them flap into the scene.
Caption Practice
Seeing as I created the cartoon, it seemed ike a good opportunity to do some caption practice as well.
I hope the village has restocked the pond since we were last here.
The problem with goldfish is that they’re just not filling.
Koi carp may look pretty, but they don’t taste so good.
“Hey Ron, remember social distancing!” “It’s okay Doris, there’s plenty of air circulating up here”
“That’s a coincidence, I’m called Percy too!”
“Have you ever thought about a change of careers?” “Nah, fishing has grown on me over the years”
“They even use a rod and line to try to catch fish” “Ah, bless!”
“Let‘s out the aquarium in the next town”
“They do eat fish, but they coat it in batter and deep-fry it first” “How ghastly!”
“And after they’ve spent all day catching a fish, they throw it back...” “Strange...”
Wide Angle
For the wide angle I wanted a view looking across a lawn. Of course having sketched such a billiard-table smooth surface, I wondered what might pop up to make it a bit more interesting…
…moles naturally fit the bill!
Caption Practice
What a great canvas to work with.
“This lawn is very flat and boring” “We’ll soon fix that!”
“This won last year’s lawn of the year award”
“Frank’s had a few near-misses with the dog” “Yes, he’s definitely living on burrowed time”
“You know he spent twenty years perfecting this lawn” “That’s very kind of him”
“I’m railing against the system - lawns are a symbol of a bourgeois life - deliberately choosing to spend time and resources on using up land that could be put to better uses” “Really? I just like digging holes”
Race you to the other side!
Always good to tunnel a couple of meters before breakfast.
“Worms for breakfast” “Again?”
Uncle Frank was notorious for ruining the lawn at Blenheim Palace.
How To Not Start An Online Business
These are some illustrated podnotes to go with the Modern Wisdom Podcast - How To Not Start an Online Business.
In this episode, host Chris Williamson talks with Jonny from Propane Fitness. Here are Chris’s notes introducing the podcast:
Jonny joins me to discuss the wild west of creating money on the internet.
Given the living hell that real businesses have been through with Covid, many budding entrepreneurs are trying to get some of that sweet, sweet internet money.
Expect to learn, the biggest tips Jonny has learned over 10 years of working on the internet, the fundamentals of creating an online business, why traffic & conversions are life, the most common problems everyone makes and much more...
Below I’ve listed the notes I made while listening to the episode. I then chose some of my favourite ones to illustrate.
Everyone is an expert at something.
Going from taking something that you’re doing for someone else in the confines of a business and that are paying you what they think that’s worth, but the market may think it’s worth more.
If you have something valuable you have a service, some knowledge, some expertise that is valuable to someone else, shorten the gap from a to b.
You can have all of that right (all the stuff you think you need to set up a business) but not have a customer.
If you’re solving a problem, then someone, somewhere will pay you for it.
If you get that bit right, then you can make a lot of mistakes and still succeed
If one person has got the problem and they’re willing to pay you for it, that tells you something important that if there’s one person there probably going to be more than one.
Principle #1: Make sure that there’s an actual market for what you’re going to create.
Principle #2: Don’t get into a one-to-one based business. You are very constrained long-term if you want to grow you are limited by hours in the day.
What is it like to not have the expertise?
How does it feel to completely not understand all the stuff that I understand now.
How can I help someone acquire the same information?
I’m going to work with someone who doesn’t have the information, I’m going to figure what the best way of doing that is. What you end up with is a really good offering for the customer, not just what you think is interesting or you think is the right thing
The metric of success that you have chosen to judge your project by is the final thing that is going to arrive in your project way, way later.
How do you want to spend your time?
What does an average day look like?
Which platforms or business models most suit that.
Start with the end goal of what is the life you want to live.
What are the most common mistakes?
You don’t need to convince the client that they need their problem solving, they kind of already know that, it’s just that there’s ten reasons why I don’t want it to be you.
Unless you overcome those they’ll never pay attention to what you do.
There has to be something online as part of your process, the sales funnel, the customer journey, that starts to help somebody else see why you might be able to help them.
Dating analogy:
You don’t ask for marriage on the dance floor, there are steps I between and you’ve got to create that experience. There’s a lot of work involved, is quite difficult but that’s the reality. It’s a nice way to live, it’s a very rewarding outcome to have a high profit margin business. But it isn’t as easy as many people imply it to be
Just because it’s a lower price doesn’t mean it’s a lower percentage of what someone’s willing to spend
At every price point you’ve got someone who thinks it’s too expensive, at every price point you’ve got someone who’ll complain.
Lower price point sales tend to generate a higher percentage of complaints
Start at a higher price point first and figure out the selling part, because if you can’t sell something to your customers there’s probably something going on at a deeper level.
You get what you pay for.
Customers look at everything on your website. Images, layout, copy etc all of these different things tell me about the person/business that is trying to take the money from me
What are the markers of a good/bad sales funnel? What are the principles around making it good/bad.
The most important thing, especially if you’re thinking I’m going to try and live off this is repeatability.
Every month I get this many customers, I get this many sales, that’s a foundation to build on. Repeatability does it consistently work?
Who’s the person I’m trying to sell to, how do they normally make decisions.
How do you give them a walk-through of what it might be like, you’re mimicking a customers decision.
You should be able to rely on your funnel. It should as closely as possible match what the customer needs to make a decision if someone needs longer than a day to make a decision but you try to make everyone make their decision in a day, it’s not going to work.
You need a shorter window, people looking to buy immediately, but also a way to keep in touch with people YouTube, podcast is handy
What does my customer need from me to make a decision about this, whether that’s now or in six months time and how to I create that experience in my business.
There’s no magic three step script that makes this all work, it’s just people buying from people so you’ve got to mimic that as closely as possible
Search based content is going to be the dominant thing
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook are feed based social media you don’t search on them for something
A podcast, blog post, article, YouTube video you can make something once and then a year later people are still finding it.
It’ll be a long time before people stop searching for things on google, YouTube whereas people can leave social media platforms very quickly, due to bad press.
Race to ever increasing quality
Almost 90% of the content you consume today will have been created within the last 24hrs - David Perel
It’s come, easy go - you won’t remember you consumed it whereas if somethings been around for a while it’s most likely to be of worthwhile content if it’s popped up. On your radar having been in the Internet for three years it’s proved its value
Podcast and YouTube is a step down from being on tv.
Traffic is getting people to see the thing, conversion is getting people who see the thing to buy the thing.
What would happen if It started succeeding and I’m had double my customers next week would I be able to fulfil that? Because if your systems aren’t scalable then it’ll break and you’ll hate it.
Work closely with customers to get feedback and ideas if a customer says I don’t understand, can you explain this more clearly, can you explain this a bit better, what do you think about this, see it as an opportunity to create a resource for that question, I’m going to answer this question once to the best of my ability and then it’s the best answer to that question ever or it’s the best walkthrough explanation ever.
Most of the problems you come up against are consistent challenges.
The job of a owner or managing director is to be a complex decision engine that can never be matched by anyone else
That is the only place you add value
There will be someone half your age in a decades time who can compete on the grunt work.
It’s so hard to come to terms with the fact that what you think you’re good at is actually just a recipe you can write down and give to someone else and they might be better than you. The trick is picking a better person.
In setting up a business it’s not just the core things, it’s everything else, support stuff
Tiago Forte - A paradoxical thing about people who consistently choose the most high leverage activity. Is that their efforts have a rough-edged half-arsed quality because polishing things to perfection. Is a low-leverage activity perfectionism is. A nice way to hide from shipping at a pace necessary to find what works.
If you’ve got an idea sell it then build it with your customers you’ll end up building a better product.
Anyone sit and procrastinate, anyone can sit and perfect something - just launch it
You run out of motivation usually at getting something from 90% perfect to 100% perfect far more than doing another 90% perfect thing.
Just keep getting yourself to good enough and ship it - over time good enough will continue to increase.
Idea is the constant, delivery is the multiplier.
It’s all about the execution you can have the best in the world, but if your execution is awful no ones going to listen.
It’s the person walking around the Tate gallery:
‘I could have done that’ well, yes...but someone did and now look where they are...you could have done. It....but they didn’t
It removes the ability to criticise
Only you know what 100% might have looked like, no one else knows that that your 80% was actually the 100% and if you’ve. Got any criticisms great. It was only 80% perfect so I’ve got room to improve
It is only you that ever feels the lack of potential you fulfilled in a project because to everyone else outside looking in that’s the product/service/course.
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Combining Ideas In Cartoons
A while ago I was involved in a cartoon idea generating challenge.
Myself and the other participant each chose a topic that we wanted to produce ideas about. In my cases it was dogs; in his, houses.
We each used our topic as a base element to which we added a different element to every day.
Here is the list of daily elements I’m going to show today:
Ladybug
Smartphone
Umbrella
Haircut
The ladybug one you can see at the top of the page.
Here are a few of the cartoons that I came up. The main point was to generate lots of ideas, rather than to produce many polished cartoons.Aaaaa
Dogs and Smartphone
I could easily have got a lot more mileage out of this topic.
Of course I’m curious what the dog sent to the cat…
Dogs and Umbrella
Continuing get the cat vs. dog theme that appeared previously.
Playing with the umbrella? In the rain? Such fun!
Dog Shelter.
Dogs + Haircut
It had to be an Afghan hound for this one!
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Lesser-Known Dog Breeds - The Seafoundland
The Seafoundland is by far the most powerful swimmer in the canine world and one of the strongest swimmers in the animal kingdom. Able to swim for vast distances, the Seafoundland is notable for being the only sea going dog. The Seafoundland's outsized paws sometimes result in it being a little clumsy on land, however it is in the water that the dog truly comes into its own. Those outsized paws bear webbed toes which enable it to move steadily through the water at a good rate of knots. The dog is also able to use it's tail as a rudder and so is highly manoeverable.
One of the most notable Seafoundlands was that of long distance swimmer Betty Paddle who was accompanied by her faithful dog 'Henry' on her English Channel swim of 1923.
Betty even attempted to enter Henry in the Paris Olympics the following year. He was entered under the name of Henry Paddle and it was only when he was lined up at the side of the pool for the 100m freestyle that an official pointed out that only human competitors were allowed to enter. Not to be deterred, Henry made the most of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to swim in the Olympics and took part anyway despite the impending disqualification. Henry's time would have qualified him for the next round.
During the 2011 Tsunami in Japan, a Japanese Shiba dog, Potchi, was washed out to sea and was able to survive by scrambling onto some debris. He was rescued two days later by a Seafoundland from his neighborhood, Koji, who swam out and towed him back to shore.
This is definitely a breed that needs a lot of exercise, and it really needs a daily paddle as well as a daily walk. Those who enjoy a day messing about in boats on rivers, will find that their dog likes nothing better to tag along behind the boat, and will even happily tow the boat if the rowers get tired. The dogs coat can tend to be a bit high maintenance to prevent matting and also to remove any barnacles that may have lodged there. Seafoundlands can still sometimes be found to this day assisting fishermen who take a tumble or those in peril on the sea.
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Making A Drawing More Cartoony
Sometimes when you draw a picture you get a feeling that it’s just not cartoony enough. In this article I’m going to share a few ideas to help cartoonify a pic.
Trying bigger head and eyes
Altering the body proportions can instantly make something look more cartoony. You will have seen this many times before in various different characters. Even just altering the eyes alone has an instant effect.
Speed tracing
For this I tried tracing the original drawing really quickly to see if it loosened the lines up. I have to admit that this didn’t really work, but I thought I’d include it here.
Altering the pose
Here I’m altering the pose to see what effect it has. Adding a big grin to a face (where appropriate) can quickly make things more comical.
Adding a greater sense of speed
As the dog is running, I thought I’d emphasize this by altering the pose again to reflect a sense of speed. In particular, the ears flying about in the wind.
Adding comical touches
I thought I’d add the tongue lolling about. I also added the second eye and had the dog slightly cross-eyed to give the impression of manic speed.
The finished picture
Of course some breeds are naturally more comical than others…
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Drawing ‘Snow Mobile Hijack’
Here’s a recent cartoon that I drew for someone. In this article I’m going to break down the steps in creating the above cartoon.
Sketching the characters
This was the first time that I’d drawn a snowmobile, so I used a photo for reference. I’m working with a 6B pencil in ProCreate, using an iPadPro.
Sketching the background
I used two more reference photos, one of a log cabin, and another for the trees and hills.
Adding the characters to the background
All of this is done in layers, so it’s easy for me to move the characters around to find a good position. I’ve also added washes to the characters.
Adding washes to the background
For all the washes I used the watercolour tool, setting the opacity to 20% and then slowly building it up.
Adding washes to the cabin
At the moment the top of the characters merge a bit with the cabin. I’m going to resolve this by adding a bolder outline to the characters later to help them stand out more.
Adding washes to the man and snowmobile
I’ve also made the end of the cabin darker, so that the man stands out better.
Adding shadow
I added shadow beneath all of the characters and also around the edge of the cabin.
The finished cartoon
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Illustrated Podnotes - What Is Consciousness?
I follow the Modern Wisdom podcast put out every week by Chris Williamson.
I’ve found a lot of the content to be informative and useful, so I decided to start doing some Illustrated Podnotes to go with some of the episodes. Here is the intro to the podcast:
Philip Goff is a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and an author.
Consciousness is the most evident of all phenomenons. It's the one thing we can actually be sure of, and yet we have a very limited understanding of what it is and why it's here.
Expect to learn the main philosophical positions on consciousness, why Philip thinks the old proposals are insufficient to explain our awareness, what time racism means, why Deepak Chopra just won't me alone and much more...
See if you can guess the philosopher this one is based on.
However being faced by a tiger does help you to clarify your thoughts rather rapidly!
Combining Ideas To Create Gags
A while ago I was involved in a cartoon idea generating challenge.
Myself and the other participant each chose a topic that we wanted to produce ideas about. In my cases it was dogs; in his, houses.
We each used our topic as a base element to which we added a different element to every day.
Here is the list of daily elements I’m going to show today:
Mountain
Backpack
Water
Wood Chipper
Here are a few of the cartoons that I came up. The main point was to generate lots of ideas, rather than to produce many polished cartoons.
Dogs + Mountain
Also included with this element is the cartoon at the top of the page. All of these sketches were drawn on an iPad Pro using ProCreate. In the app I used a 6B pencil.
Dogs + Backpack
This is the first picture today exploring a very traditional rivalry: cat vs dog.
I think if I’d added a bigger backpack it would have made a stronger impact.
Dogs + Water
Looks like it’s 2-0 to the dogs at this point.
Ever since a friend of mine got an Italian Greyhound I’ve been drawing a few of these in different forms.
Dogs + Wood Chipper
I’d never draw a wood chipper before this one came up. In fact I didn’t really know what one was.
And those last two pics look they’ve evened up the score between the cats and dogs, with today ending at 2-2.
Over to you:
Time for you to give this a try!
Choose a base element, something you regularly draw or a new topic you want to explore.
Now write a bunch of different topics, anything will do. Don’t stop to think about these for too long, just jot down whatever comes immedialtely to mind.
Everyday choose a new topic and add it to your base element. Doodle a couple of ideas. Remember that this isn’t about creating perfect or polished cartoons - it’s about generating lots of ideas for cartoons.