How can I become a cartoonist? What starting salary can I expect?

Hi, To apply for a job of cartoonist the employees prefer a person who has a Bachelor degree in fine arts with subjects like drawings painting etc. also for better prospects you can pursue Master’s degree also. To be a cartoonist you must be creative, you should be good at sketching and drawing. You should be able to express news or stories though your cartoons well what work you will do depend on what kind of cartoonist you want to become. Cartoonists’ works are published in newspaper, magazines, novels, etc. As far as salary is concerned this is more of a self-employed job depending upon how much you work or how good your skills are or for what firm you are doing a job and where your cartoons are published.

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Cartoonist is the one who creates various unique and fresh images for comic books, greeting cards, comic strips, graphic novels or product packaging. As a cartoonist, you can be a little dramatic, a bit silly or political in nature, depending upon the desired outcome. You regularly have a limited amount of space to display your art and are tasked with making a design that will help sell a product, further a brand's uniqueness with its target demographic, or just be entertaining, fascinating, or provocative. Although no specific training is obligatory to draw cartoons, you may still be interested in taking some classes. You can pursue courses on how to draw the human body and draw using perspective, and how to use shadows to convey depth and width in 2-D design. You can also learn how to create cartoons using different mediums, from the more traditional methods of pen and ink to using the latest computer programs. Since you will be creating cartoons from scratch, and often by yourself, you may be interested in taking classes in how to write text, dialogue, and create an ongoing storyline. Just for the sake, you may have a degree in fine arts. The average pay for a cartoonist is Rs 353,173 per year. Experience strongly influences salary for this job. Most people with this job move on to other positions after 10 years in this field.

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To be a cartoonist, first of all, one needs to have the imaginative skills or have the idea what you're going to illustrate. You have to take a Bachelor's degree in fine arts, after the graduation on fine arts you'll be able to opt for cartoonist job, but if you want to do higher study in that, you may go for Masters in fine arts as well, after the graduation. Apart from the degree courses, there are many institutions which serve Diploma courses in this as well. The course will help to teach you not only about the painting or sketching but also about computer graphics, photography and many more interesting additional activities. The salary may depend on the basis of the various factors, such as what kind of cartoon you're making, where is it going to come up, but apart from that, you expect 10-20 thousand salary per month in the beginning. Good luck.

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