Tag: Free

  • #FCK CANCER

    Fuck Cancer Cartoon by Bearman Cartoons

    The other day on google plus, “#FCK CANCER” was a trending topic.  As I read through many of the posts with people talking about how it affected them personally, I got mad.  Not at the people for posting it but because of this devastating disorder.  I watched my mother bury her mother and sister within 3 months of each other.  I watched my brother in law lose his battle that he fought for years.  And now I have several other close friends battling hard to get healthy.

    So I made this cartoon image.  And unlike other images that I copyright or put my URL on, I have put no notifications on this image.  That is because I want people to freely use it.  Use it to put on your blog, use it to put on a fundraising tshirt, or any other way.  The only thing I will say because I have seen it done is you can’t sell the image itself (on shirt etc it is encouraged) or try to pass it off to others as your own (ie slapping your URL all over it) because I don’t want others to think they can’t use it.  So essentially you can make money off the products you make with the image but not off the image itself.  Click on the image itself and you will be taken to the full sized png image.

    I’ll be back with the final count of the Charity Challenge this week but in the meantime a big thank you to Colleen from TixComics for my Fan Art and Brandon from TWXXD Comic for putting me in his cartoon this week.  Click the links to check them out!!

  • Free Caricature

    That’s right, it is back. You can win a digital caricature of you, a friend, your dog or your favorite celebrity.   This is an exclusive contest for those following Beartoons on Facebook.  Don’t worry for those of you who don’t have Facebook, I will be doing other contests soon.

    Here are the guidelines:

    • Go to the Beartoons Facebook Page and hit the Like Button
    • Add a comment there that you want to be included in the contest
    • Share the contest with your Facebook friends for an additional entry.  Let me know in the FB comments
    • Enter by Midnight Tuesday July 5.
    • Winner will get a free digital version of their caricature.  Use it as a gravatar, on facebook or however you would like.

    Entrants must allow me to use one of their source pictures in a blog post to show the results and as always my disclaimer is there is no guarantees that you will think the finished product looks anything like you.  But that is a better guarantee (and price) than those crappy street caricature artists give.

    Good luck

  • 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