From Carpentry to

Cartooning:

Unexpected Experiences,

Changes, & Outcomes in the

Development of a Practicum

CCT Student

Product &New Career

Carpenter

My Projected Path

What I Thought Would Happen…

Take Courses

Collect Knowledge

& Experiences

Mold K’s & E’s

into a Practicum

Leave CCT with Synthesis Product

& New Career

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

Developing Practicum Subject

3. “Creative Forces and the Development

of an Editorial Cartoonist”

2. “Gravitating toward the Creative Development an Editorial Cartoonist”

Started Engaging the Field:Actively doing

Cartoons

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 …

What I didn’t 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.

Thesis TimeThe End Product:

“Doodles to Drawings: The Creative Process of an Editorial

Cartoonist.”

…I’m Finished!!!

Or was I..?

Carpenter & Developing

Editorial Cartoonist

Editorial Cartoonist

CarpenterAgain!?!

Back to the Drawing Board

Things evolve unexpectedly…

Back to Carpentry and Miserable

Sending out Resume and Not getting much response.

Feeling isolated and discouraged

A position opens at the Art Institute of New England for a Drawing Teacher

I am recommended

by a CCT student who

became familiar with my Drawing

ability.

Later, I discover they hire me because of my passion, knowledge of the field, and skill in Editorial Cartooning.

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.

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!