JERM EXPLAINS HOW I DRAW MY CARTOONS
Over the years, I have been criticised for drawing digitally instead of traditionally. Terms like “copout” have been bandied about by some of my contemporaries. My choice to, almost totally, abandon ink and paper, back in 2005, grew out of an increasingly desperate need to save money, and the embarrassingly high cost of art supplies was not helping. It made cents to invest, once off, in digital drawing equipment.
Today, I mostly still use the same equipment and will happily continue along the technological path because, firstly, I like it and, secondly, because it pisses off purists.
Of course, the irony is that the way I work is not dissimilar to the way “traditional” cartoonists work. I lay down a rough idea.
I refine it.
I colour it in.
And, if I’m lucky, it gets published.
There is, however, a downside to being a copout. The environmentalists love me.
But I’m working on that.
