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decembre 8, 2007:
Many people ask me: "How much time you need
to make a cartoon ?"
I reply: if it's just for fun, it may take 5 to 10 minutes. But if it's to
be published in the journal, it's another story: I will take more time.
But still, it
Just to get an
idea, it may take 2 or 3
days. Sometimes, I have to rack
But let's
speak only about the drawing. If I
put a lot of finishing
touches, it may take from 1
to 2 full days. If no
finishing
touches:
about 1 hour. By example, this cartoon (note that I draw them totally by hand, I use computer only to scan them):
This one took 1 hour and 15 minute to draw. I had already found the idea, I include only the time to draw, to do some research, imagine, think how to put everything. The butcher: I totally imagined him. The woman: I got a little inspiration from a comic. Not copied but inpired, it's not the same thing ! As I already said, at 10 years old I learned by myself with comics, then it's normal I continue to get a little inspiration from it. The scale: I searched on the internet and I chose this one. I have not everything in my head ! The meat and the desk: I drew them by heart, they were in my head. Mostly, I draw 2 or 3 sketchs with no details, with a ball-point pen or a pencil, to put peoples and their movements, scenery and background. I drew the first sketch in 20 minutes:
-------------------------------------------------- I drew the second sketch in 5 minutes, this one I only did small changes on the woman:
-------------------------------------------------- I drew the third sketch in 10 minutes:
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The last step
is to make the final cartoon: I add the gray tones on the
Total time to draw this cartoon: 1 hour and 15 minutes, only for the drawing.
Sometime one tell me
that some details are not logical.
By example on this cartoon, one cable of the scale should go this side of
the meat, but the 3
cables are on the back. I know but I want it like that ! I
tried but it did not give a good look. The same for the small paper, if I
would put a cable on the front, the small text would be difficult to read.
I say: it doesn't matter, this is
But, if mostly
a cartoon exaggerate or ridicule a situation,
sometime it's I put this cartoon on this page of my website, so you may read the text under it.
Thanks a lot !
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or "How you make a cartoon ?"
depends of the subject, it depends how I feel. If I'm tired,
I don't feel like drawing much. If I already have an idea, the job
is already half done for me, perhaps more. If the subject is not too complex, not too much
scenery or background, and if I don't put too much finishing touches, it
may take from 1 to 2 hours to make a cartoon.
my brains. But sometime, I have like a "flash of lightning" and I
find it in few minutes, even in few seconds. Also, I have friends who
give me good ideas, which I can modify if needed. Often I don't modify, I
draw the way they tell me.
). 
The
last but one step is "to put ink" on the third sketch, but not directly on
it. I put it on a luminous table, then I put on it a good paper so I
can see through, then it's easy to draw with 2 or 3 different size black
felt-tip pen. Since my sketch under is not perfectly finished, I have to
improvise a little bit. I drew this step in 25
minutes:
previous step
cartoon. No color because the journal is not printed in color.
I just do it with...a simple lead pencil. I did it in 15
minutes:
only small
details. A cartoon is not supposed to represent perfection but to
imitate reality.....it makes it funnier ! 
not the case. Sometime it's to draw a serious and true
story, to get the attention of the reader, to encourage to read a serious
text, as it's the case in this example. 