"""My Cat Can Draw Better Than I Can!...WHY?"""

By:   Sequoia C Cougar
Imprint:   Cartoon Cougar Studio
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   613g
ISBN:   9780692665039
ISBN 10:   069266503X
Series:   How to Draw
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Currently I have a studio called ""CARTOON COUGAR STUDIO"" and I am a graphic designer, cartoonist, illustrator, and art teacher. I have done many logos, animal and human portraits, graphic designs, from animal feed stores, beauty shops, real estate companies. animal and caricatures of clients at fair grounds, street fun events, and in my own shop I have been published by Leatherneck magazine, ARC magazine, Clark College newspaper. I helped start and have illustrate and write for a company called ""Whomp'n Pawz Productions LLC"" that helps kids get into the world of music. Starring a blue, magical harmonica playing cat called Bluzkat. This is still an ongoing mission. I opened and ran my own Art School called, GRAPHIC CAT SCHOOL OF ILLUSTRATION AND CARTOONING for 12 years which included: teaching realistic art, cartooning, comic book, graphic book illustration, teaching 3-d clay anatomy, graphic art, fine art, tole painting, realistic/cartooning human and animal portrait drawing, creative advertising, and marketing techniques. I did POP displaying shrink wrapping, directing art projects for students/clients. buying, /selling art materials, consulting with customers on printing, layout, and Illustrative techniques. Script writing. Hiring teachers to teach their specialties, as well as teaching interested and talented students how to become successful art teachers. I have also taught in various high schools, grade schools, schools for the challenged, and at Tualatin community center for over 2 years, which I taught students of all ages air brush, cartooning, and illustration. I have and still teaching students on line how to illustrate realistically and cartoon spot and strip cartoons. Currently I have just started an art class for people in my church which promises to grow. Several of my students have gone on to have very successful art careers, as well as being able to get into art colleges with a winning portfolio showing off their knowledge as an accomplished art MY CAREER AS A WRITER After 15 years of security work as a Correctional Officer, I finally have finished my art book, ""My Cat Can Draw Better Than I Can...WHY?"" which is an accumulation of all my special drawing techniques I've been teaching my students . My interests lay into historical fiction, and sci-fi. But this interest I want to incorporate now on the worldly events that have been prophetically told by Jesus, and all the other Bible Prophets and Apostles. I am currently working on a prophetic historical novel with a sci-fi bend to it called: ""Time Of Sorrows."" I am sporadically writing and illustrating my own children's books. One of my current projects is a series of 4 small musical books illustrated and written by me to help musically challenged people that love music but, have no idea what a note is and how they work. I have also started several books, which I am hoping to finish and publish. I have had a short history of writing comic book scripts. I have also been a Ghost writer for several clients for a few years. When I had the GRAPHIC CAT I had taught students, hopeful writers and comic book script writers how organize their thoughts, plots, character development, helped them navagate through the dizzing world of publishing, and teaching them how to find editors, and agents. AWARDS: I received the Edda McCormick scholarship for my art work in Clark College, and in 2005 was awarded first place for outstanding cartooning for C.O.W. (CARTOONIST OF Washington). I am a member of the National Association of Professional women, which profiles the country's most accomplished PROFESSIONAL WOMEN throughout the nation."