Learning to draw cartoons

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Since I started being glued to the internet all day, I've begun reading webcomics. I love the silly humour, bright colours and...well, pretty much all of it actually. my favourites are things like: Basic Instructions, Scene Language, Dilbert, Questionable Content, Scary go Round, John Martz, Boy on a Stick and Slither, Three Panel Soul and Whiteninja.

I'm guessing that drawing stuff like this isn't comparatively difficult, but I just find that I'm a bit useless. Do you reckon it's possible to teach yourself to draw (are there decent tutorials online?), would it be better to get a teacher, or is stuff like this confined to people who are born with it? it's something I'd love to get into, but I've always been far too self-critical to get into it properly as I should imagine it's a pretty steep and long learning curve.

advice and resources are greatly appreciated. I'm looking for digital stuff rather than paper as I already have a graphics tablet and I don't have any paper!
 
drawing one of those things ive always wanted to get into there's some good books and stuff out there ive just never got round to actually trying
 
In short yes, drawing can be learned. The reason you, and I are shockingly poor at it is because of the attitude we in western culture have towards the arts. Ie, when you are young if your not naturally good at it there is no point bothering. I certainly remember being abandoned in art classes at school because the teachers simply did not know how to teach it. The fact is yes, some people are lucky and are able to do things naturally, but ANY skill can effectively be learnt.

Book wise, see:
Betty Edwards - Drawing on the right side of the brain.

Other than that, scout your local library for resources on drawing things that you are interested in.
 
check out xkcd - shows you don't need to be a great artist ot do BRILLIANT cartoons :)

yeah, I'm nowhere near as intelligent as that guy! I love XKCD, but it's not really an example of the sort of drawing style I like.

cheers for that book Clinkz :)
 
check out xkcd - shows you don't need to be a great artist ot do BRILLIANT cartoons :)

Haha, I just checked him out...brilliant stuff.

Love this one:

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