From Carpentry to Cartooning:

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From Carpentry to Cartooning Unexpected
Experiences, Changes, Outcomes in the
Development of a Practicum
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My Projected Path
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What I Thought Would Happen
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Developing Practicum Subject

• 1. What issues, professional concerns, and
  problems face Cartoonists?

Started Engaging the Field Actively doing
Cartoons
2. Gravitating toward the Creative
Development an Editorial Cartoonist
3. Creative Forces and the Development of
an Editorial Cartoonist
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While Working on My Practicum

• Drawing Editorial Cartoons
• Doing Less Carpentry
• Researching Professional Career
• Getting to know the Climate of Politics
• And Drawing Drawing, Drawing, Drawing
  Drawing,Drawing, Drawing, Drawing, Drawing,
  Drawing, Drawing, Drawing, Drawing, Drawing,
  Drawing, Drawing Drawing, Drawing, Drawing,
  Drawing, Drawing Drawing, Drawing, Drawing,
  Drawing, Drawing, Drawing Drawing, Drawing,
  Drawing, Drawing, Drawing, Drawing

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What I didnt realize

• I was mastering the subject
• I was reviving my creative self.
• I was becoming known for my drawing skills
• I was creating the knowledge base and tools I
  would later need.
• I had created a powerful forward momentum.

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Thesis Time

• The End Product
• Doodles to Drawings
• The Creative Process of an Editorial Cartoonist.
• Im Finished!!!

Or was I..?
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After Synthesis
Back to the Drawing Board
Again!?!
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Things evolve unexpectedly
Back to Carpentry and Miserable
Sending out Resume and Not getting much response.
Feeling isolated and discouraged
I am recommended by a CCT student who became
familiar with my Drawing ability.
A position opens at the Art Institute of New
England for a Drawing Teacher
Later, I discover they hire me because of my
passion, knowledge of the field, and skill in
Editorial Cartooning.
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• A position opens at the Art Institute of New
  England for a Drawing Teacher

• I could Not have gotten this position if I was
  not prepared
• A portfolio of my work
• First hand Knowledge of the Field
• A Record of my professional work
• An ability to discuss education in terms of
  Critical and Creative Thinking.

Amazingly, these are direct outcomes of my
Synthesis Practicum work.
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Now and Future

• I am currently teaching 4 courses in Drawing at
  A.I.N.E
• I have taught five workshops on editorial
  cartooning at A.I.N.E
• I am the Education Director of the Newton Boys
  and Girls Club
• Mid-Process on a Comic Book Project and looking
  forward to publication soon!