My Cat-Style Cartooning Technique is Unstoppable

If I ever get around to writing a how-to cartooning book (something I have actually considered), one technique I’m going to champion is learning how to pencil and ink with a real, live–and often moving–cat on one’s drafting table.  My thinking is that this is kind of like those “heavy hands” things that some folks go running with: if you can pencil and ink with a cat moving around on your work surface, then you should be really good at it when there’s not a cat moving around on your work surface, right?  I recently drew and inked–and inked with a brush pen, in fact–a drawing while I was in a moving bus going up a mountain in a rain storm.  I credit this cat-style cartooning technique.

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  1. Speaking of cartooning books. Have you looked at the Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine?
    http://www.amazon.com/Whatcha-Whats-Esther-Pearl-Watson/dp/0618563156

    I remember my cat constantly jumping up on my Keyboard while I was working. I guess I should have made a place for her to sit in front of it. Now my dog just lays behind my chair so I can forget about her and roll over her everytime I get up. Ah, such is the life of working from home.

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