Fiscal Prudence.
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Hello Matt Davies,
Since you are kind enough to often reply to your commentators, I was hoping that I could solicit your advice and pester you with questions:
1) Drawing techniques. You inspired me to lay aside my pencils and pick up an ink pot and nibbed feather to draw political cartoons for my college newspaper. I've been using some black India Ink for this, and have been having problems loading enough ink on the nib to draw the entire line I want to at any given moment without having the ink initially coming off in huge unsightly globs. The only nib I have is old and dull, could this be the problem or is it just something I have to accept when using nibs?
2) Your drawings. I've been trying to figure out where you start your caricatures. Looking at your Obama and Clinton caricatures, it looks like you start them with their noses, frame their nose inside their face, and then fill in the rest of the face. McCain looks like he grew up from his jowls. But your Bush caricature looks like you started with his eyebrows and then his nose, then drew his chin. Am I way off the mark here?
3) I am graduating from my university soon. This means that I am also going to lose my soapbox. But I want to continue to draw political cartoons (though not full-time, because I'm also trying to become a 1337 scientist). Do you have any advice as to how I could possibly get some publication somewhere to maybe run my cartoons once weekly? Or even for an online publication?
Any advice you can offer would be much appreciated,
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