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January 24th, 2013

Cartooning tutorial 2: Biscuits

the biscuit

In my second cartooning tutorial, having addressed tea, I am going to talk about biscuits (Thank you to Rachel for the suggestion).

To be honest, I don’t eat many biscuits when cartooning. A while ago I went through a significant Kit Kat phase. I was eating one, maybe two Kit Kats (two finger variety) a day. So up to four Kit Kat fingers. There may have been one day when I had six Kit Kat fingers – I don’t know as I have tried to put it out of my mind. I know, I’m not proud of it.

I have a bit of a thing for choc-chip cookies I must say. But I don’t eat many. Ginger I can do without. Also anything too dry. Chocolate biscuits are generally better than those without.

I have attempted, in this New Year when I am doing everything differently, to replace biscuits with mini satsumas. ‘Easy peelers’, if you will. The ones aimed at children.

What I’m saying is that it isn’t that essential to eat a lot of biscuits to be a cartoonist. But having said that I don’t draw a lot of cartoons. It could be that if I did eat a lot of biscuits I would draw more cartoons. But at the height of my Kit Kat eating I was drawing more or less no cartoons, which I think says it all.

Well, I hope you’ve learnt something. I have added a category called ‘Cartooning tutorials‘ to the blog. Over time you can gather these tutorials together in a folder, put the folder on a shelf, and forget about it.

Question for small groups
Do you like biscuits?

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10 Responses to “Cartooning tutorial 2: Biscuits”


  1. Russ says:

    Suggested additional sub-question (mainly directed at church refreshments teams):

    Why do you put the most desirable biscuits in the centre of the plate? And the dullest on the outside? Logically, the nicest will go first, so why not put them on the outside of the plate?
    Think of all the time it would save. I’m sure this is the more biblical approach to stewardship.

    January 25th, 2013 at 9:18 am
  2. chris clark says:

    I see the mid-biscuit portion is the largest

    Reminds me of the attentiveness curve during the week

    Monday, Tues recovering from the weekend, Wednesday reaching peak but actual peak during extended lunch, Thursday Friday winding down in prep. for weekend

    Next topic – rearranging items on the desk?

    January 25th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
  3. Ann says:

    Russ,

    This is a ploy to try to ensure that some (even just one) of the most desirable biscuits are left for the server. Drawbacks to this approach: i) it’s defintely not biblical, and ii) it doesn’t work anyway!

    January 25th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
  4. Lauren says:

    Thanks for this, Dave.

    Husband and I just laughed a lot at this and I can’t wait to discuss the issue further in small group, along with the perils of minor Kit Kat addiction – your honesty is appreciated.

    January 25th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
  5. Ann says:

    Thanks for the biscuit treatise. Of course here in the US we call them cookies and biscuits are something else – but then that is probably just a sign of our rebelliousness! to call things by another name just to be contrary LOL. Like “tabling” legislation (a topic of today’s news from the UK) which here is killing it off but for you it is getting ready to discuss and vote on it. You could do a series of English language cartoons to help us sort our so called common English out both ways

    January 25th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
  6. Andy says:

    Dave,
    I feel I must raise the issue of rich tea biscuits – surely the most useless biscuit ever invented – are churches the only remaining purchasers, and how can we stop them doing so?

    January 25th, 2013 at 2:46 pm
  7. Liz from the sewing room says:

    Chris – anyone who rearranges anything on my desk, or teaches others to do it will be marmalized. You have been warned.

    Regarding Kit Kat addiction, please ask if you would like assistance in setting up a 12 step fellowship to help your life become more manageable.

    January 25th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
  8. chris clark says:

    Ann I believe that tabling came from the same root. An agenda item was tabled to be dicsussed at a later date. This has come to mean never in the US and quite soon in the UK…I could be wrong but I would like to table that suggestion:-)

    January 25th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
  9. Deacon Susan in California says:

    Oh good, another tutorial where I feel confident of an A, maybe not an A+. Here in California – as Ann says – we have cookies. We even have to feed them to our computers. A top notch English biscuit is expensive, hard to find, and hard to keep for long, because one’s friends sniff ‘em out and drop in for tea and biscuits “What do you mean, it’s not the day for Bible study?” Desirable: Digestives, ginger snaps, maries. Do they still make those chocolate bourbons? Dave, do you eat biscuit crumbs?

    January 25th, 2013 at 6:32 pm
  10. Richard says:

    Six fingers of Kit-Kat is not quite on a par with my former Bourbon Cream habit. Used to get strange looks in the Co-Op in Aberystwyth coming in to buy my daily double pack.

    January 25th, 2013 at 8:03 pm