Tag: Bearman cartoons

  • Drawing Barack Obama

    I am one of those people who have little time for my hobby of drawing because the day job gets in the way.   So typically when I am doing one of my hack editorial cartoons, I am working in Photoshop with my Wacom board.  I wish I had the time to draw things out freehand, scan it and then ink in Photoshop because no matter how used to the Wacom I get, it doesn’t match what I can do with pen and paper.

    Anyway, this week I find myself away from my Wacom and have several ideas running through my head.  So far I haven’t really liked how my caricatures of Barack Obama have come out and each one has looked completely different.  So for the past 3 hours I have been doing nothing but drawing Obamas face over and over.  Chin and Ears are easy…its the placement of everything else that just doesn’t seem right from image to image.  I finally got it so it is OK IMO.

    Then what happens.  I am surfing the net and come across an article on Cagle Cartoons call “Obama 101” by Taylor Jones describing…HOW TO DRAW OBAMA.  WTF.  How come I didn’t do this first?

     Ehh…I’ll stick with what I got.   To be revealed soon!!!

  • Free Font of your own Handwriting

    Thanks to this great tip at www.drawn.ca, there is a online tool called YourFonts.com where you can create a font of your own handwriting.

    A great tool, especially for cartoonists who do all/most of their work on the computer. All you need to do is go to the website (or click on this image)

    YourFonts.com Online Font Generator

    The process is easy:

    • Print the Template
    • Fill it out
    • Scan it and Upload it
    • Put the finished product in your Fonts folder.

    Two things to think about.   One, I think I would have better results to my liking if I found a medium point versus a fine point pen. Second, pay attention to the hash marks so you keep your lettering the same size. The first time I tried it, I didn’t pay enough attention to that and when I typed a sentence, it looked like a rollercoaster.

    So introducing the Bearman Font:

    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com
    Bearman Cartoon Font created at YourFonts.com

  • Bearman Cartoon: Jim Schifrin's Abandoned Ship

    The Cincinnati Beacon, where I initially started posting my cartoons, has been aglow with attacks on Jim Schifrin who writes a local newsletter called the Whistleblower (See here and here). Personally I never read his stuff unless the Beacon (about yearly) goes after him for his ever apparent racist remarks.

    Lately though it seems anyone with political office or political aspirations has been repudiating the things Schifrin writes just so they don’t get put in the same group as him.

    Are his supporters telling him to lay off talking about their friendship or abandoning him all together?

    2 6 09 Bearman Cartoon Schifrin Supporter Jump Ship

  • Bearman Cartoon: Obama's Economic Recovery Plan

    Today Tom Daschle announced he is pulling himself out of consideration for Secretary of Health and Human Services because he owed approx $120,000 in unpaid taxes. Right before that Nancy Killefer withdrew her name as potential Chief Performance Officer because of about $1000 in owed taxes.

    And even new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, somehow forgot to pay $34,000 yet still managed to get confirmed.

    Many are blaming Obama for not vetting his nominees. But my editorial cartoon shows that maybe Obama was thinking about the economy and is just working his plan.

    2 3 09 Bearman Cartoon Obama Cabinet Tax Evader copy

  • Bearman Cartoon: American Idol Send in the Clowns

    1 29 09 Bearman Cartoon American Idol

    I am one of those people who only watch American Idol during the Audition Show. It’s painfully obvious the types of singers that go through.

    A. Sing a slower song because…
    B. 95% of the people they choose over do the vibrato in their voice.

    In the past two weeks two contestants Rebecca Garcia and Naomi Sykes were called out because one of the judges thought their audition was a joke reducing the poor girls to tears. I am not the only one to notice. Vote for the Worst website, that pokes fun at the tactics Idol producers use, caught this.

    There are plenty of good singers who don’t make it through because they pick a bad song and plenty of ok ones that make it through because they made better song choices.

    Personally I liked Rockstar INXS and Supernova because they had people pick vote each week and the bottom were put on the block for the judges to boot off…so there was at least some semblance of who had talent.

    Anyway, back to Idol, I don’t get why some people are so upset when they get booted. Don’t their friends and family tell them they aren’t that good. I think they should all get credit for having the guts to audition but do they think they will get a trophy like they did when they sucked at soccer as a kid just for showing up??

  • Bearman Cartoon: Rob Blagojevich = Gandhi??

    According to several sources (Huffington Post, NBC, and LA Times), current (but probably not after this week) Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich invoked the name of those he seems to put himself on par with.

    Reflecting on his feelings about his arrest on December 9, Blagojevich told NBC, “I thought about Mandela, Dr. King and Gandhi and tried to put some perspective to all this and that is what I am doing now.”

    So with this editorial cartoon and his visit to “The View”, I thought I would give a little more perspective to Mr. Blagojevich.

    110 09 Bearman Cartoon Blagojevich is like Ghandi

  • Retro Bearman Cartoon: New Year's Optimist

    I drew this cartoon last year at this time for what had by that time unfortunately became the defunct experiment of The Cincinnati Beacon website to create a monthly print edition.

    Looking back, it is amazing how much worse 2008 really was compared to 2007 for many. But I am still thankful for many things as we go into 2009. May you all have a healthy, happy, and employed 2009.

    New Years Optimist

  • Bearman Cartoon: Freestore Foodbank Blogger Challenge

    Remember, the first 10 blogs to add this site to their blog roll, I will donate $20 per to the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati.

    Bearman Cartoon Freestore Foodbank Blogger Challenge

  • Bearman Cartoon: Presidential Race "Issue-Gate"

    10 4 08 Presidential Race Issue Gate Bearman