Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip
Draw well vs draw funny
A course by Liniers , Cartoonist
About the video: Draw well vs draw funny
Overview
“With very little, you can draw funny. One can be a great draftsman, but not be funny. Again, the secret is to continue working and not to dismiss an idea so quickly, but to work with it until we see that it has potential, or not. ”
In this video lesson Liniers addresses the topic: Draw well vs draw funny, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip. Learn to make people think and laugh with comic strips.
Partial transcription of the video
“For the next lesson we will talk about what you have to do. They have to draw now Graphic humor seems more important to me Than draw well. Technically. I think it's more important to draw funny. And it is not something so common. I know more people who draw well than people who draw funny. It doesn't take much to draw funny, it may have more to do with personality than with the technical, academic talent of drawing. There are artists who are very basic in their drawing, like Gary Larson. There is an American cartoonist named John Callahan it was called, which was quadriplegic and had motor ...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Drawing, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Liniers
A course by Liniers
Ricardo Liniers Siri is a cartoonist from Argentina better known simply as Liniers, one of his last names. He began his career publishing fanzines before making the leap to the national press with the comic strip Bonjour in the newspaper Página 12. Since 2002, he's been publishing comics strips daily in La Nación and on a weekly basis for El País in Spain.
He has published more than 30 books in 17 countries around the world. His illustrations have been featured in many formats, from album covers for Kevin Johansen, Andrés Calamaro, and Marcelo Ezquiaga to covers for the prestigious magazine The New Yorker. His work has also been displayed in countries such as Brazil, Peru, Spain, and the United States in the 2018 Society of Illustrators exhibit.
When he's not drawing comics, he collaborates on projects with other artists and friends, such as live painting at Kevin Johansen concerts and an illustrated stand up show with illustrator Alberto Montt. He also cofounded the publishing house Editorial Común with his wife Angie.
As a culmination of his career, he won the Eisner Award (the "Illustrators' Oscar") and the Inkpot Award at the 2018 Comic-Con held in California.
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