The afternoon session was completely sold out with over 20 children in the room aged between 8 and 12. We spent the first hour looking at techniques and ways to cartoon, with the emphasis on that really, there wasn’t a right or wrong way, just that you approach your drawing with confidence. We had a brief visit to the Burgerman exhibition upstairs and then it was back to the room and out with the boards. Each board is a little over A3 in size, so that’s a lot of space to cover, but because cartoon doodling is all about spontaneity it’s by no means impossible. We had a good mix of age and abilities in the room, with some more relaxed about letting go and drawing than others, but there wasn’t anybody who wailed about being unable to do it - everyone had a good go at it. I can’t fit every piece of work in here, so I asked my daughter - who falls in to this age group - to choose a few to share.

A lot of work gone into this one