#comics workshop

On May 10th

The Hand Behind the Pen: Analogue Art in the Digital Age with Joseph Hewitt at 6am EDT

How to Make a Newsletter Your Fans Love to Read with Kelci D Crawford at 11am EDT

How to Print a Comic: A Prepress Panel with Joan Zahra Dark, Carina Taylor, and Hye Mardikian at 1pm EDT

Comics Creative Workshop with Polly Guo at 4pm EDT

On May 11th

Jordie Bellaire Colouring Portfolio Reviews with Jordie Bellaire at 1:30pm EDT

Having Fun with Backgrounds with Kel McDonald and Blue Delliquanti at 4pm EDT

Melo/Drama: A Dramatic Tension Workshop with Rivkah LaFille at 6pm EDT

So I just said in my previous post I was going to try to post more, so let me start that out by belatedly posting the comic I did for the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this past Friday.

“Tee hee” -✏️

(via Picarto.TV - Events)

Hey everybody!

As promised, I have planned and will start my “How to draw and write comics” series as a live @picartotv event starting on Friday, September 15th at 12pm CST. If you wish to participate, jump in and hit that ticket button!

The first week we will be going over a brief history of comics and sequential art through the ages and then outline the course. This course is for anyone who wants to learn comics or even polish their skills!

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Some memories from my comics workshop at SOS Kinderdorf, Bremen, 20-21 April 2017.

Seven kids (ages 10-12) attended the workshop. We kicked off with some drawing games, gradually slipped into group storytelling (starting with an abstract circle we brought to life, moving on to characters) and ended up creating little A4 comic zines on the second day. The local newspaper also paid us a surprise visit. Clown comic by Alma, created towards the end of the first day!

I really enjoy doing comics workshops. It’s fascinating to see what the kids come up with intuitively, how fast they pick up and incorporate new input and how they progress, individually, in the course of one or two days. It’s so rewarding to return home with a feeling that the kids enjoyed the experience and took pride in their achievements, and that I was able to pass something on.

But it is always a learning process for me, too, and always will be, thankfully. Preparing the workshop, interacting with the kids and discussing questions that come up for them in their own work, really forces me to reflect on my own practice, on drawing and storytelling in general, and allows me to experience different approaches and points of view, and to broaden my own perspective, not just as far as drawing comics is concerned but also on an interpersonal level. I’m really glad that I can have this experience.

I always make sure to bring a broad selection of books, too, so that they can have reading breaks whenever they like. My personal collection of comics is very international, and initially I used to regret not having a wider range of German-language (all ages) comics available. Many of the books I own are in French or English, and I have zines in Dutch, Arabic, Korean,... But I’ve found that the language barrier can actually have a very positive effect, since it leads the kids to engage more intensely with the drawings themselves and pay closer attention to style and visual storytelling. 

Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this week, because I'm working this afternoon. (Well... there's a slight possibility I may be able to make it if it turns out to be a very short workday. But it's unlikely.) But I did attend the workshop last week, and, uh, didn't get around to posting my comic until now.

Last week's workshop was hosted by Anand Shenoy (@anandpagalkutta on Instagram), and the theme was "aimless comics", basically just start with a grid of 2x4 panels and... draw a kind of an aimless story, without worrying about where it's going. The only further restriction was that there should be at least two panels with dialogue.