The easiest money I ever made Cartooning
At first glance, this looks like a prrreettttyyyy unremarkable posting, but do stay put: this one is well worth including, as it ably and lucidly illustrates the sheer 'hit-and-miss' nature of the World of Paid Cartooning---a profession as precarious as any, save for the even more unstable field of professional acting.
Sometimes I enter cartoon competitions on various art-agency sites: I have won a few of them, and quite remarkably, I have been paid more than once by submitting pencil roughs only, which quite literally takes me a minute or two of my time------and to be quite honest, this early penciling stage is, for me anyway, the most enjoyable part of creating cartoons-----you are never sure exactly what you will quite come up with, it is all part of the inventive fun.
Anyway, here is another 'toon from last year [2014, at the time of writing, all you readers of the far future] that yielded me 200 Australian Dollars------I am quite sure that this example represents the quickest and easiest money I ever made from my drawings.
Money is not everything of course, and for every Charles M Schulz making megabucks, there are hundreds of cartoonists making just an OK living [cartooning for a living IS a lot better than 'working', it has to be said, and thousands more on the fringes, toiling for no money---a bit like me at times.]
Anyway I was so pleased at winning this contest, I inked in the drawing off my own bat and gave them that too.
The other entrants had submitted full-blown color entries, and I feel a bit guilty when I win with these quicko efforts.....this works the other way around, of course, with me sometimes drawing for no payment.
PLATE 1: The rough pencil of 'Baby Swannie' that earned me 200 Dollars in 2014
PLATE 2: The 'inked-in' version that only exists Digitally
Swannie, how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old Swannie-------
Sometimes I enter cartoon competitions on various art-agency sites: I have won a few of them, and quite remarkably, I have been paid more than once by submitting pencil roughs only, which quite literally takes me a minute or two of my time------and to be quite honest, this early penciling stage is, for me anyway, the most enjoyable part of creating cartoons-----you are never sure exactly what you will quite come up with, it is all part of the inventive fun.
Anyway, here is another 'toon from last year [2014, at the time of writing, all you readers of the far future] that yielded me 200 Australian Dollars------I am quite sure that this example represents the quickest and easiest money I ever made from my drawings.
Money is not everything of course, and for every Charles M Schulz making megabucks, there are hundreds of cartoonists making just an OK living [cartooning for a living IS a lot better than 'working', it has to be said, and thousands more on the fringes, toiling for no money---a bit like me at times.]
Anyway I was so pleased at winning this contest, I inked in the drawing off my own bat and gave them that too.
The other entrants had submitted full-blown color entries, and I feel a bit guilty when I win with these quicko efforts.....this works the other way around, of course, with me sometimes drawing for no payment.
PLATE 1: The rough pencil of 'Baby Swannie' that earned me 200 Dollars in 2014
PLATE 2: The 'inked-in' version that only exists Digitally
Swannie, how I love ya, how I love ya, my dear old Swannie-------
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