Cartoon Comedy for Beginners

Caricature and secondary characters

A course by Raúl Salazar , Cartoon and Humor Artist

Cartoon and Humor Artist. Valencia, Spain.
Joined April 2014

Learn to conceptualize and draw a current affairs cartoon

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 95% positive reviews (298)
  • 4498 students

About the video: Caricature and secondary characters

Overview

“In this unit I am talking about the caricature, one of the main elements in the current cartoon. We will comment some tips to make a caricature of any public personality but we will also talk about the importance of depersonalizing the secondary actors of the cartoon. ”

In this video lesson Raúl Salazar addresses the topic: Caricature and secondary characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon Comedy for Beginners. Learn to conceptualize and draw a current affairs cartoon.

Partial transcription of the video

“One of the key elements and... most characteristic of the current cartoon... It is the caricature, it is the representation of some character that we all know... and that is what we have to achieve, that the reader recognizes that character. It's okay if we are not exceptional cartoonists; Let us remember, for example, some vignettes by Forges and S. Aznar; They are simply thick eyebrows and long hair... and four mustache hairs... but the faces of Forges are always exactly the same fat nose, glasses and a head shaped like an eggplant. If we are not very convinced of the result of our cartoo...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

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Course summary for: Cartoon Comedy for Beginners

  • Level: Beginner
  • 95% positive reviews (298)
  • 4498 students
  • 4 units
  • 16 lessons (2h 18m)
  • 3 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Areas

    Comic, Drawing, Graphic Humor, Writing

Raúl Salazar

A course by Raúl Salazar

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Cartoon and Humor Artist

A graduate in advertising and public relations, and staunch defender of creativity in any department and sector, Raúl has undertaken countless creative projects. In 2006, along with other colleagues, he founded the Círculo Rojo advertising agency, where he was in charge of the creative department and the design area. He has combined this in recent years with other marketing roles in other non-agency projects.

Currently, he is reaping the fruits of those years when he kept his own blog of cartoon humor and current affairs, Un Respeto a las Canas , which has led him to publish continuously in the satirical magazine El Jueves or in various online newspapers.


Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 95% positive reviews (298)
  • 4498 students
  • 16 lessons (2h 18m)
  • 7 additional resources (3 files)
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  • Level: Beginner
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Cartoon Comedy for Beginners. Illustration course by Raúl Salazar

Cartoon Comedy for Beginners

A course by Raúl Salazar
Cartoon and Humor Artist. Valencia, Spain.
Joined April 2014
  • 95% positive reviews (298)
  • 4498 students