To everyone, thank you so much for making the Cartoons and Comics Project Educate Week a success! We appreciate all your support, article views, comments and favorites. I hope you guys learned many things in the past 6 days. 

And many thanks to our lovely contributors who helped us a lot in making such wonderful articles for everyone Here's the recap of the articles from last week.

ESTABLISHING THE INITIAL STEPS FOR A WEBCOMICESTABLISHING THE INITIAL STEPS FOR A WEBCOMIC Hi I’m  Andrea Dotta : a Pro comic artist and animator and one year ago I had the insane idea of making a powerful webcomic to show my works to more people as possible. Now I’m in a positive development towards my goal. If you want to do a webcomic, always do your best as their are millions of webcomics on the internet.  In this article,   I  would like to share the things that I’ve learned this year so I hope you will get something from me.   WRITING IDEA :  There are no bad ideas, there are only ideas that are not developed.   To develop your idea, you need to be authentic ... Imagination, Inspiration, and CurationAs deviants, we are serious about our craft, hobbyist or professional.  We study hard to become better at what we do. There are many great tutorials here and elsewhere on these kinds of craft based skills and techniques.  However, sometimes all that serious study and hard work gets in the way of our imagination.  Therefore, it is important to remember to establish a wonder filled mindset, actively seek out inspiration, and curate a library of inspiring content to reference in the future. This article explores some ways to do these three things, and I encourage you to comment and share even more tips on this for other deviants! Inviting ... On Comics by David NamenadNote: This article was made by the awesome :devnamenad: so be sure to check his gallery for more comic goodness. Part I My name is David and I've been making the comic strip "The DaneMen" for the last 7 years. It is a strange comic strip. No story. No dialogue. No characters.  Stranger still, every single person in "The DaneMen" looks exactly the same. Visit this  gallery  for examples. This article is meant to briefly give you some advice about comics, and for me to feel self-important. We are already off to a great start. First, some quick advice: 1. Read  Understanding Comics  by Scott McCloud. 2. Carry a small notebook with... 

A Pocket Artist's Guide on How To Draw        A common struggle an artist stumbles upon on his way to a triumphant drawing style is when he is just beginning to draw. That is something I, a 14-year old writer learned after a year of practicing illustration, a field that is quite new for someone who uses a pen to write prose, poems, and stories, and not to draw.       Probably like some of you here, I started drawing after seeing characters on the television and tried to imitate them. At first, I found any drawing I made so wonderful, brilliant, great, etcetera, etcetera… [Oh well..] until a passerby badmouthed my works. At first it was hard to believe that my highl... The Greatest Comic ArtistsComic world is filled with great amount of talented people. John Romita Jr., Frank Miller, Alex Ross, Mike Mignola, Frank Frazetta,  Bill Sienkiewicz are only few of hundreds of comic artists. In this article we're going to focus on few famous names who decided to join DeviantArt and share their wonderful work with us. :iconadamhughes: :devadamhughes:website:  http://www.justsayah.com Adam's journey with comics began in 1985. He's best known for his Wonder Woman and Catwoman covers, however he also worked on Justice League, Ghost, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Legacy, Batgirl and many other projects. He works with both- traditional and digital ...

Crafting your Story: From Ideas to ExecutionCrafting your Story: From Ideas to Execution – An Interview with Felipe Cagno :devfelipecagno: is a screenwriter and filmmaker from Brazil, who is also crafting his own comic project, The Lost Kids, with his amazing team. It’s really a pleasure and such an honor to have him for this interview and to share all his experiences with regards to his success in crafting his own stories and executing them into a feasible comic book project. With this interview, I am hoping that you will be able to get some ideas on how to turn your ideas into a reality while keeping things the most important things in mind. Hello Felipe! First of all, thank... Tips and Tricks on Successful Character CreationTips and Tricks on Successful Character Creation  – An Interview with Wanchana “Victorior” Intrasombat   Wanchana “:devVictorior:” Intrasombat is a very talented illustrator, focusing on cute, whimsical and very imaginative artworks from Thailand. He is also a very talented concept artist and he is also well known for his wonderful character designs. Currently, he is working as a 2D freelance concept artist, character designer and illustrator and has been an art director/visual developer for a Coca-Cola commercial in Thailand. Again, I am much honored to have this great experience of having this amazing guy for Cartoons and ...  Modern Day Cartoons: Insights with Arthur FongModern Day Cartoons: Insights with Arthur Fong DeviantART community, I am very honored and very pleased to announce that for today, we will be having Arthur Fong , a visual development artist at DreamWorks Animation Studios . He is part of the team who made us giggle with The Croods and made us feel with so much awe in The Rise of the Guardians especially to all the Jack Frost Fans out there. The interview will be all about some insights on the modern day cartoons and to see how the persons behind the cartoon shows that we love work and how they put so much effort in making us smiles each time we watch such great movies and shows... From Opportunities to a Steady Wonderful Career  Samantha “Sam” Kallis is a Visual Development Artist at Sony Pictures Animation (Specifically for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 ). She is also a part of the 2012 Nick Artist Program for exciting show projects such as “ Spongebob Squarepants ” and “ Monsters VS. Aliens ”. By being such a young professional, she encountered many opportunities in the past that helped her in building such strong foundations in achieving so many great things today, not only in her career, but also with finding something that she loves to do in order to be truly happy. With such an amazing and inspirational woman as Sam Kallis, I am ...