Beer-Money Toons
ALSO CULLED from my miniature hard-drive of early cartoon efforts uncovered on my flash-drive, here are some 'quickies' done around 2012, these were for a panphlet for a construction company, illustrating their safety practises.
This assignment just came totally out of the blue but I took it; the bad news was: the payment was pretty meagre, meaning I only had the incentive to belt this material out very quickly, and that is how these should be assessed.
Even D C Thomson paid pretty modestly at times---in 1986, I recieved a princely 7 pounds 50 for supplying similar-styled single toons to their DANDY CARTOON BOOK series.
Believe it or not, these el-cheapo jobs are usually quite fun, because you do not get a lot of interference from the 'paymasters' who let you just get on with the drawing......these were just a highly-intensive blur, many done all at once, and most I cannot even recall drawing. The subject may seem less than promising at first glance, but I always say that part of the cartoonists' job is to make the mundane seem 'interesting'.
This assignment just came totally out of the blue but I took it; the bad news was: the payment was pretty meagre, meaning I only had the incentive to belt this material out very quickly, and that is how these should be assessed.
Even D C Thomson paid pretty modestly at times---in 1986, I recieved a princely 7 pounds 50 for supplying similar-styled single toons to their DANDY CARTOON BOOK series.
Believe it or not, these el-cheapo jobs are usually quite fun, because you do not get a lot of interference from the 'paymasters' who let you just get on with the drawing......these were just a highly-intensive blur, many done all at once, and most I cannot even recall drawing. The subject may seem less than promising at first glance, but I always say that part of the cartoonists' job is to make the mundane seem 'interesting'.
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