Ted Ray says: I'd like to draw like
¡OR those who wish for a hobby be-
uides politics, cartooning can bo as harmless as any. I hear that it in all very simple, and after your first two
or three efforts
you'll quickly
catch on to the
idea that you ought to be a pro- fessional (writia GILES).
The first 15 ye of editors rejects will give you, con- #denco in this be-
lief.
You won't,
course, be discour
aged by ugly rumours
that the
income tax dragora
will take
eam.
all you
A really good ne- countrat may bo
able to persuado them that a pen and small botto
of Indian ink are more ur iesi ne,el- sary for a cartoon-
ist to earn a lv-
ing, and for these
I
TILES
THE MIMIC, Ted Rap, a saturat mimic, pretenia là copy of
Lenon No. 1, set by Giles.
believe copy those inspiring examples
there is a small Income tax re of still life known as "cubes"
and "cones."
The lesson was followed by
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1950.
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THE MASTER: Six simple stopes in the build-up of a face are demonstrated by Giles on his drawing-board. Gites may be seen behind the heeramug, top left.
uced Comething
Aa inr 12 the mystic ter a walloping for all whose Art Training In concerned I efforts did not in some
It will give you why
no end of You'll am not entitled to say whether resemble "cubes" and "cones." satisfaction hearing people say: creep into it. this is essential or not. I have
But Art, ilko most things "What a beautiful drawing of a never had any. Many of my suppressed," would out. The spaniel," when what they are faithful pen friends
ax weeks hard are now
would-be artists
un looking at is among rushing to catch the next post to would seize the opportunity to work on a caricature of Uncle
express themselves on the way Fred. home by writing rude things in the dust on citizens' cara.
Our guardians saw that these efforts at self-expression were suitably rewarded.
tell me they've noticed this).
Most of my
childhood clays wero spent 「建 one of thow large grey boxes known an a "school,"
where they let you out for ten minutes twice day into a bricked-in plece of asphalt named a "playground." As most of the time spent
these
playgrounds spent in self-preservation them whe verr little chance of
on
was
Go Ahead
Co skip the training.
Go
It will be music in your ears when you show them your and they Intest masterpiece
marvellous! nay!
that "Isn't You ought to take lessons."
Mathod
studying art. Even los chance ahead and draw what and RST you
inside the large grey box.
Our tutors there considered the only ort necessary for Was to all In sickly silence week and draw that
♫
US
once
le green vase. This menu was occasionally enlivened by our more Ima- Einntive masters ordering us to
Keep
A
the
will need paper. As your work is not going to be reproduced there is no. for need to pay through the nase. not like we do, for inferior paper; you because
of the alleged paper of shorloge, Your children's home-
will work books
do nicely.
how you like. One of pleasures of cartooning? your own amusement, and for your living. Is that please only yourself.
You'll
get a kick Aut doing a perfectly bad cartoon You'll find your aunt's pen at Instead of a kick
from your the bottom of the garden. editor for perfectly good one.
GAML
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Reggie was using it to make a hole in his roller skate straps.
3nk will cause a lot of fun. I believe there is a firm that sells a very good init-remover for carpets, tablecloths, and so
оп.
Your young brother will afler a while of grow tired puting litte pleces of carbide In your ink whenever your back is turned.
to
As the years go by and you notice there is no improvement whatserver In your nwful creations you wil develop a "lift" Somebody tendency to
else's ideas and style.
This method produces satisfactory results,
15
very
You get just as much credit the mug who works hard trying to produce something original. When you have com- number pleted a considerable
of thesd "fts" you'll be able to kid yourself and many other that the mug whose people work you have copied is pinch- log your style.
for
You are then eligible cropping cartooning as a hobby and becoming a professional.
THE
Advantages
MITE advantages of cartooning are dubious, as a hobby Your early successes will even- tually tempt you to draw sly little cartoons depicting col- leagues in embarrassing cumstances
Goaded by the applause
HOMEWORK
How
to sketch a baby
rute idea of the sketches here is to show the reader with what care a face must be built. Note the precision with which the eyes are placed. First one, then the other, carefully spaced according to the proposed size
of face,
Note, too, how the mouth lo placed a ffle lower - usually central beneath the eyes, but a little to one side for people who talk that way.
Rejected Enne look
The shape of the face itself is im- portant. It holds the pieces together, and provides a boundery beyond which Avaricious
the nose should not ex- tend,
Rejected
Why Did Russia Move In Korea?
ILITARY experts are:
M surprised that the
Communist attack on JOHN BAKER
been
South Korea launched at the beginning of the rainy season, which makes campaigning always difficult and sometimes im- possible. Folltical observers" watching events in Russla are not so surprised.
For when a domestic crisis
arises it is always the fashion of the Politbureau to divert attention abroad.
WHITE, M.P. says because
Stalin is
facing an economic crisis
It was discussed with sur
at the
14, rald: "Special attention musi be paid to improving the work of enterprises in the food, col-
meat and ton,
dairy produces industries, in which great los are occurring as a result of lock of proper planning and insufl. cent supervision.
There followed mention of trading lossen totalling -03 million roubles.
Grechutha mid: "Last year several enterprised under various ministries, such as those of building materiale, agrion)- fural machinery and meat and to full their fixed production dairy produce, _not_only_failed quotas, but even reduced their production as compared with 1948 by 20-30 percent."
This report is a sharp contra- and Finland, and the hot bad
management and ports on the "recovery" of the war campaign against "failure to develop local in- Ukraine. Greece, were similar diver- dustry." The fisheries and. sions. So was the Berlin
motor and tmctor industry blockade.
It is evident that the greates were condemned for "ex- difficulties are in the vital in cessivo wantage" the meat dustry of agriculture. Tie and dairy industry for "poor Supreme Council reports used the quality and lack of variety." term "major failures," pariicu- larly in electrification plans in The chemical, electrical, Georgia,
This may well explain the prising frankness timing of the attack on Supreme Council sessions, South Korea. The cold war campaigns against Persia dustry was charged with action of previoua Kremlin re
The building materials in
All of them coincided with economic or political crises
behind the Iron Curtain.
Cand
These are some of the dun-
forestry, building, timber, tales organisat "eficiency of The present crisis is eco-
An An editorial in Pravda of nomic rather than political paper, communications and
May 17 Fave details of what is though the six-week-long coal industry were also cen- evidenty a serious breakdown
sured.
In the collective farm organiza- disappearance of Mr Vyshin-
Reference was made at tlon in the Kirghiz, Kazakh and sky from the Soviet aceno the meetings to the "poor Uzbek repubiles, in the Kalugs needs an explanation.
internal and Orel provinces, and in ibe
Krasnodar region. His deputy has been act organisation" of ing for him in international trade and "shortages of con-
Aumer goods." "Serious culties that the Soviet Goverb affairs. He was not present failures" in the construction mont admit exist. In a country with Molotov, Milenkov,
where the economy ly under continual strain they add up to Beria, Ponomarenko, Bul- ganin and other leaders at tho Sovict Supreme Council meetinga on June 16, 17 and 19.
What evidence is there of an economic crinis in Rus- sia? Quite a considerablu amount.
Soviet stations were mentioned. u perious situation.
Camom
• Afy Ausdana and i aizqays read your articles, Due our problem 1 different from, the usuci ones you deal with. We have been impressed with the number of people among our friends who stern to be dis- appointed in their marriage, Yet here we are with tour
of several new power
It will be solved, and another Other reporte indicate that there are serious dif- mas trial and purco will prob- ably follow. But a censational culties in the Ukraine, re- success for Communism is the Barded by the Politbureau as need of the moment.
That may well be the reasons a key republic. Soviet Supreme Counell, M. S. World Copyright Reserved-Landon
A deputy chairman of the for the Korea invasion
Grechukha, reporting on June Express Service).
Warner
If a marriage
is breaking up,
invite the couple home
happy children, all now at riage? Because never in all
school, and our home life is everything we could roish it to be Is there anything we, toho are happily married, can do to hein these others 2"
Notice that his face his baby' ATTIER people's marriages what it is they are aiming at.
Glance over to the Accepted cir- left at Ted Ray's opening
time. copy of my sketch.
face, of course is rather more alnister than mine. Experience will correct it.
of
Happily
married
People
Jour
their own lives have they above all should give this lead. Let cthers catch something of had any first-hand experi-
the fun and spiritual unity ence of a happy home. which he at the roots of your
home life. So they don't quite know
Encourage your children to are personal and pri Why not invite your friends bring their friends into
frequently into your family circle. If they come from It depends on how much of the few friends you have left.
vate. You are right to re- more
fractious hones 1 will give an animal lover you are in the you will grow rash and pro-
spect their privacy. None home?
them a taste of what home life way you deal with the cat duce a real snorter about your
Expression is vital. Be of us has the right to meddlo If we all remain locked into was meant to be. They may problem. Cats always walk bors which will probably Land
ruthless critic of your own in other people's lives, even our own pelty domestic orbits, catch a vision which they will across cartoons left to dry. you in court,
Which le one reason why I work. On the right you see when things are not happy. not only may we go stale, but if carry
three attempts I made at the
we are happy, hat happiness lives. advise you not to write or
same face and the reason why If they ask, that's different., ever who the people I rejected the first two. I did your cartoon are supposed to be. The temp-
not reject the third, because I I am sure, however, that tation to label your caricatures
there are certain things bap- will be great as it is probably of identifica-
pily married families can do your work if
if you do not get in the ordinary course
Results
DESULTS are, of course, en-
Rarely up to you. You will the only met a
naturally inherit the British tion your audience will have.. determination to discredit any-
thing you do yourself by re- ferring to your cartoons 13 "They're not very good, really."
Parting Shot!
NOBODY has ever done any- thing to please everybody, yet. The fewer cartoons you draw the fewer creep
the duda for your Dublic to remember.
of
If you And your friends agree with this remark, there is bound to be ✡1 feeling vicbusness or nastiness into your work.
More seriously
Q:
Giles answers a fow leading questions
WHICH PART of the figure do you start on first?
on
ANYWHERE. Usually A:
the part of the anatomy I wish to accen- tuale. In Schnozzle Duranto it would, of course, be the nose.
Q: IS IT best to draw in
a quiet studio, away from people?
was in a hurry.
Do
not hesitate to tear
the exact expression that you
want first time. Is the circle things. that forms the head 150, too For why so often
in people unhappy
geometrical? Tear it up.
London Express Service)
?
TF
over into spills
people's lives.
other
We want ploneers, We want people willing to take a lead in opening their homes to others. of It needn't mean much more, in the way of catering, than oven- ing coffee, or afternoon tea, or a are glass of sherry, if you can nin mar- to it
WHAT'S YOUR VERDICT IN THE CASE OF THE
Mean millionaire?
cal happening after you IF you've nothing better to
the lawyer
had gone.
"That
forward Into their од
'Our tastes, are
different..
I broke of my engagement, and though
no are about my love for her. it became engaged again to her. After four months we were married. I then redited that i had been toolith I still fect made a bio mistake, for i do not love her, She kind. considerato and never loses her Lemper, but Ots tastes are difcrent. Should I slas married? *
ON'T bellevo
Love
doesn't
like a tidal
Hollywood. just come wave at the start, and remain as a rosy haze for the rest of life without pato and trouble.
Love-making is a lo work hard work. Many a marriage and proceeded to develop blossom out as husband and
do for the next three by Billy Rose amount of money will finance began in a rober enough way,
and
with
a lot of important work." have started on your car-
minutes, let's play a game toon, it is best to leave it called "Answer Yes or No.".
"Only idiots leave money totwifo accepted each other institutions instead of their own 20 reservations, working to- to the last possible moment Question: If a doctor шете before going to press. Art accused of allowing a mean old
That night, to celebrate his kin," said the old millionaire. gether at the absorbing busi- Don't keep harking back to editors and process depart-man to die whe only had a week coming of fortune, the young I didn't bother telling that fool Dess of making a happy Lome.
man went out and got drunk, lawyer, but the will you wit to live anyhow, and you were on and on the way home drove his messed is only intended to throw your
engagement days, blam ments love this.
the jury, would you find him car through a plate-glass win a xcare into my con To-ing yourself. It is what you guilty of murder?
dow on Madison Avenue. Ho morrow or the next day when are now, husband and wite, DO YOU. agree,
arrested, and was
I'm that matters, promptly be comes to his senses,
not what you A dopey 'question, you say,
might have bee simplicity is the key-because it leaves you no choice? balled out, but the story hit all going to tear it up and reinstate
Wisely
foolishly, you got note of success?
Well, let me brief you on the the front pages.
When his father saw the
married, By your own, d- events leading up to the crime
next morning, he
mission you married a woman and then put the question to papers the
almost had another stroke, and
with some attmetive qualities. it didn't help when the boy
God's will for any of us is to wo are now,
40:
that
A: YES. Everybody knows you again.
there's nothing to my
+
the old will.”
ATE to him and blurted
Oct
that night the patient start from whera The mean old man-let's call faced up
out that in a short time he'd be I had another attack, and taking
#
the materiala wo have
A: I DON'T mind one or drawings. Just a few lines him Andrew Horton-was ex doing as he dam well pleased when the doctor examined him at hand, and building them up
Jay Gould
school, and among the people
two people around. But and a lot of sky or wall. millionaire of the almost no cinema organs, please! All you have to do is sittinct rough-'em-up (Giles has a mobile studio- down and in ten minutes he delighted in pushing around caravan which he can use there it is.
for living and away from home.)
was his son, Andrew, Junr,
her as it you
he knew it was touch and go-into something worthwhile. given the
mistakes ocel not affect proper medication, Past the old skinfint might be kept what we do la the situation, info
live long enough to reinstate which those mistakes led us his con left, the the original will: alightly It must be admitted that the WHEN
millionaire sent for his illfferent dose, however, and he youngster pretty much rated
to survive the you this treatment: he was a weak- lawyer. "I'm going to teach that didn't figure
Act towards car-chinned and weak-willed society ild of mine a lesson," he told night.
kid who in his teens
Well, as I got the story, he had him. "Fix up a new will where
docan't get a penny and died a few hours later and his loved ber. By so doing you will developed a cordial dislike for he two things() work, and (b) bring it back this afternoon. millions were used to set up in fact be loving her with your
doctor nu witness three or his father who insisted on it.
signature." A: USUALLY
four times as large as
What beneltelary developed around the the cartoon is going to be
want to name?" lawyer. main news items for topi- when reproduced in tho cal and seasonal events. paper. Most originals look A FEW months after the boy's
working
do Q: HOW BIG
make your original WHERE DO you get toon? your ideas?
A. IDEAS generally
are
*
The
do
asked
a
my one of the Important research will. And that in a fine bake centres in the East. As for the for happiness, finer than Jove you son, he turned out to be as big merely founded on emotions. the a fool without money as with, Companionship In building
Your children Now to get back to my eri-home in which "Make it out to one of those ginal question: With the facts will grow up, 4 companionship Zint birthday, the old man outats for medical research," before you, would you find the presiding self in sacramental This means reading all the coarse and crude because of came down with a heart attack said the old man.
doctor quilty: or not guilly of acts of love, will carry you a That afternoon the wilt was murder?
long way. The day will coma national newspapers every this-the lines look far too that all but did him in, and the
who was 'called in executed in the presence of the
when you will be surprised at morning.
thick. That is why they pecialist
informed the son that his pop doctor.
I thought so.
your early doubts and glad you To avoid a chance of are seldom suitable for didn't figure to live more than "That's a ine gesture,"
nover gave in to self-pity.q-f the (World Copyright Reserved-London [something even more topl- exhibitions,
****** week or so.
physician told his patient when Express Sérvier).