What do you call someone who draw cartoon people as a job?

Answer 1

People who draw Cartoons for the newspaper for instance are just called cartoonists. but what I want to be when i get older is an animator. basically its a cartoonist that draws multiple frames to make animated movies...

Answer 2

Depending on what you mean there are a few possible answers to this question, and it all hinges on how the figure is intended to be portrayed. If an artist draws a specific person in a flattering, but realistically presented, light then that artist is most likely a "portraitist" or "portrait artist".

If an artist represents specific people that are intended to be recognized through simplification or exaggeration of their most outstanding features, then that person is most likely a "caricaturist".

If the artist represents the human figure in a symbolic way: where a depiction of a human figure represents the IDEA of a person. (This is a man, this a child) rather than a specific person ( IE: JFK, batman, or your grandfather) then that artist is more than likely referred to as a "figurative artist".

these three categories are only the broad strokes in understanding figurative picture-making. There are thousands of exceptions and counterexamples to the above statements, but they are a good place to start.