Cartoonist

Anthony Pickett

     The career that I chose was a cartoonist for many reasons. I always loved drawling as a child and what could be a better job than drawling? There is however more to it than you'd think. A cartoonist is more than just a pencil and paper now days, cartoonists use many different formats and create works such as comic books, video game packaging, graphic novels, animations, greeting cards, magazine photos, and many more. Years prior to our current advances in technology cartoonists had to draw every picture frame by frame in their cartoons which was a lot of work. Cartoonists now days still share a pretty hefty workload all the same, because of advances in technology cartoonists have the ability to do many more things and to create many more characters and stories.
    
     The tools that cartoonists use for the preliminary stages of their design are as follows, a variety of pencils and paper, waterproof ink and a Bristol board, a brush for the ink, dip pens, fountain pens, or a variety of technical pens or markers, mechanical tints, and various paints such as, acrylics, gouache, poster paints, or watercolors. They artist might also use crayons or pastels or colored pencils. There are several other tools the artists may use depending on the project obviously erasers are an important tool but the artist may also need certain tools such as a scalpel or adhesive tape depending on what the job is that the cartoonist is doing.
   
     The reason I want to be a cartoonist is simple. Drawing pictures has always been a hobby of mine and I think its fun, and I do not want to go to a job everyday that I hate. The freedom a cartoonist has when creating his/her characters is wonderful and exhilarating. The have your tools laid out in front of you and having the freedom to make a piece of art out of nothing is a feeling I hope to experience one day.