JonathanCAllen

I have a great passion for the arts, especially cartoons. It all started when I was painting in preschool, and drawing with Spirograph kits when I was almost 5 years old. I start of drawing stick people, but then I progress into drawing animals, humans, and cartoon characters of my own. I have studied the skills of cartooning in my head by watching cartoons, TV shows, or movies since I was 4 years old. I have also gained that experience from reading comic strips, online or on paper or book, and watching web cartoons. Between 3rd and 5th grade, so far I have drawn 5 issues of Super Cat, inspired by the first 5 Captain Underpants books. Later on, I have turned it down because of how little views and complements I got from the school. It is also because the stories sound too much like Captain Underpants. Since then I gave up drawing, but I regained the confidence in cartooning at age 15 after many pep talks with my dad, and seeing comics and artwork on deviantART. I have gained inspiration into drawing my very own comic strip, Bruce, from reading the web comic, The Amazing Adventures of Captain Stick Figure, and watching a few Eddsworld cartoons. So far, I have posted the Bruce comics on the Clarion Newspaper in Madison College, then on deviantART. Since then, I have yet to restore Super Cat in all his glory as soon as I’m done with the 3-5 part story arc of Bruce.

Besides drawing cartoons, I have good interest in writing, even the creative kind. The best writing skill I can do is storytelling. I read crossover fanfictions from deviantART or fanfiction.com that are either pretty bad or so-bad-it-is-good just to get an idea on what mistakes I should watch out for in plot and characterization. However, I can learn writing tips from posts on tumblr, which even has a masterposts of effective writing in many subjects, objects, and characters.

I have been diagnosed with Autism at the age of 3. That means I have a lot of trouble talking to people, learning, and coming up with the appropriate things to say without causing offense. During my childhood, age 4 through 14, I tend to repeat every voice and word said or
action done from the TV shows and movies that I watch. I am terrible with first impressions, so I will just wait for the most interesting parts in group conversations. But even then, I still get left out. Although I can take notes from reading books, PowerPoints, and dry erase boards, I cannot keep up with what the teachers are saying. Sometimes it was because they talk too fast. In my mind, everyone thinks I am weird. But in reality, they just turned the other way. However, my Autism gives me a more creative outlook in writing and drawing. I can develop my own method of writing stories, characters, and jokes, paint the background (digitally or otherwise), and draw great character designs. Everyone would take a peek at the character designs I draw on paper, and would even complement me for them, from the intermediate school, to Boy Scouts, to even high school. Therefore, I would rather be unique and smart in my own way than anything else.