teaching cartooning

I’ve had the idea of tutoring or teaching kids lately. What would I teach? The art of cartoons or comic drawing of course. I can barely add two and two, so math would be out and I am good at English, but I guess cartooning is the way.

I have a neighbor who is a retired teacher and she makes more money tutoring kids than she ever did teaching. I think she teaches Spanish and was a Spanish teacher in her teaching career.

She mostly tutors here at the condo, at her condo unit. There are kids in and out all day, I don’t see how she does it, it’s a lot of work, but she is raking in the money.

I’m wondering if this type of tutoring is the way to go. How do I start?

Things are done digitally now. I draw my cartoons digitally using a Surface Pro and a program called Clip Studio Paint.

I’ve used other programs like Procreate and an ipad and a Wacom Tablet, but I like the Surface Pro because it’s also a computer with a keyboard and it’s easy to work on when I need to do actual work. I’m used to Clip Studio Paint, so I use that. But anything will do, I suppose. But therein lies the rub.

How do I teach? Do I teach using digital tools or do I use pen and paper? Does the student need their own hardware (computer) and software (program)? I’ll of course need to know how to use all the tools if I am setting them up to draw, which I suppose would be the same using all platforms.

How do I get clients? Is it ok to have kids here at my condo or is that weird since I’ve never been a teacher and I’m a strange man having students in and out? I guess it’s like giving piano lessons or tutoring Spanish or math.

Lots to think about, but I like the idea of being a sort of art teacher, which was always my favorite “subject” when I was in school.

Maybe I could do the whole thing digitally, you know, online I could possibly do lessons through zoom. Do people still zoom? Or maybe I can tutor on YouTube or something; give drawing or cartooning lessons on YouTube. Then I can reach a lot of students at once and not have to interact one-on-one in person.

if I teach through zoom or YouTube, then adults can be tutored, too.

Guess I should think this all over for a while before I make any decisions, or god forbid, get any paying students and then not know what to do with them.

Till next time . . .