Do you know about how awesome The Art Center blog is? Now don’t get dismissive because I mentioned a blog. I know it’s not always fun to click links to blogs. However, this is not just some self-indulgent blog of someone’s drawings (re: this blog), but rather a blog that explores how to think as a cartoonist. It’s full of helpful tutorials about thinking in shapes, in lines of action, and using visual strategies for getting the most important point across.
I personally am what one calls a “linear-thinker.” I don’t believe this stops me from being creative, but rather that it means I employ creative problem-solving in a very process-oriented way. As a person that essentially collects strategies to employ in the face of different problems (especially in regards to my artwork), I think this collection of short, visual tutorials is really fantastic.
I found The Art Center because I was following the how-to blog of Rad Sechrist, a storyboarder at Dreamworks Animation. Looking through the archives over there is really helpful too.