You may not realise it yet, but you have a cartoonist within you, just waiting to be released. The first part of the process is to stop fretting over your lack of artistic ability. You do not have to be great at drawing to be a cartoonist, although it does help if people can recognise what it is you’ve drawn. Cartoons are all about putting over a funny idea on paper, using a combination of words and images, or sometimes just images. All the shading, elaborate cross hatching, perspective, detail or exquisite fine line will not make a cartoon one iota funnier. In fact they may even distract. Cartoonists focus on the funny, and so should you.
