Hello,
My name is Gethin Walters and last week I finally completed the Cartooning Course and I was delighted to gain a pass with a distinction from my tutor John Byrne. I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and I have picked up so many new skills and techniques. The course also set me challenges that I would have shied away from if I had not had to do them but it was through those challenges that I realised that there were things that I could do/draw that I would never have had the confidence to try in the first place.
Over the summer, I completed fourteen cartoons and I was trying to show various techniques and skills that I had learnt over the duration of the course. I had to choose seven of the cartoons so I submitted a variety of single panel, multi panel and comic strips which showed different viewpoints, angles, examples of movement and some caricatures. All of the cartoons that I did in the summer are shown below.
My mentor for the course was John Byrne and he has been extremely helpful and supportive from day one! He has given me a huge amount of confidence and belief in my work that certainly wasn’t there when I started. My aim (the bigger plan!) is to start a website with my cartoons, greeting cards and T-Shirts.
I would also like to do the Illustrating Children’s Books Online Art Course with Maggy Roberts…as I have been blown away in the last few years by the artwork that the students from that course have produced. I thought the Giraffe pictures that Natalia Romankova recently did were fantastic! You can see it on the competition winners page as she was runner up in this years London Art Competition.
I hope you like my cartoons and that they at least make you chuckle…a little bit!
Gethin Walters
Cartooning Course
