#comicsworkshop

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.

Aargh I have been busy with work and haven't been able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshops for a while, but I still have some comics from old workshops I haven't posted yet, so… I'll post one of them now. (I also have other art I haven't posted yet, but I want to get caught up with the Friday Night Comics comics first.)

These pages are from the June 28 workshop, which was hosted by Robert James Russell (@robhollywood on Instagram). The first part of the assignment was to draw yourself as three birds that in some way reflect your personality. So I chose first a woodpecker, because I have a tendency to (figuratively) beat my head against things (and also this species of woodpecker was named after someone with my surname, though that's not really a personality thing), and a kakapo because they're awkward flightless birds and I often feel like I'm awkward and have trouble doing anything, and a weaver bird because they're known for creating elaborate nests so it reflects my desire to create things.

Then we were asked to draw a comic featuring one of the three bird characters from the previous page interacting with its surroundings or other characters in a way that reflects its traits and personality.

So, after saying I was going to start drawing and posting more often, I've now gone two weeks again without posting. I do have a bit of an excuse, in that I was at Gen Con, a big game convention, from the 31st to the 4th. At least that's my excuse for not posting from the 31st to the 4th (or the 5th, really, since my flight back was delayed); as for my excuse for not posting since then, uh, I was still recovering from Gen Con?

Anyway, in my continued attempt to catch up with the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop comics I haven't posted yet, here's the one from May 17. (I didn't participate in the workshop the last two weeks, last week because I was working that Friday and the week before that because, well, I was at Gen Con.) That week it was hosted by Dana Jeri Meier (@danajerimaier on Instagram), and the project was to first, draw an island divided into a "comfort zone" and a "scary zone", the former showing things you're comfortable drawing and the latter things you have trouble with. And then next, to make a comic using things from your island. So I made a comic about centaurs using some things from my "scary zone"—human anatomy, horses (or horse parts), and hand lettering.

Comics Class with Aatmaja Pandya