#sequentialartistsworkshop

So I participated again today in the @sequentialartistsworkshop free Friday Night Comics Workshop, this week hosted by @alabasterpizzo.  The project this week was to look up some place on Google Maps that we’ve never been, find at least one exterior view from Google Street View and one interior view by searching for information on a nearby building, and incorporate them into a three or four panel comic.

I picked a random coastal city in Norway, and here’s the comic I ended up with.

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It has been once again way too long since I posted anything here, and I would have preferred that the end to my absence not be marked by abstract scribbles, but here we are.

For the first time in... quite a while, I attended the Sequential Artist Workshop Friday Night Workshop tonight (I'd been working Friday afternoons lately). This week it was hosted by Mara Ramirez (@forever4pm on Instagram), and the project was to just... draw to music. They played four different songs, and we were supposed to... sort of dance in drawing, just draw whatever abstract shapes seemed to go with the music.

Well, I'd really hoped to post more often in 2024 than I did in the last part of 2023, and so far I am not off to a great start. But anyway, I did participated once again today in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop, so I guess I may as well post what I drew there.

This week the workshop was hosted by Yasmeen Abedifard (@yasmeen.abedi on Instagram), and the theme was the rules of comics, and when not to follow them. There were three "warm-up" activities for which we were given five minutes each, and then a main activity for which we had ten. The first warmup was just a two-panel comic with three dialogue balloons; the second a two-panel comic with non-rectangular panels; the third a four-panel comic without gutters. Finally, we were tasked with drawing a comic that broke the rules in one (or more) of the following ways: No dialogue, no characters, no panels, fixed perspective, fixed panel size, no gutters, only spreads, backwards narrative, or no narrative. It's hard to make out because of the size and the sketchiness, but my last "comic" is supposed to show a bunch of vignettes of investigators exploring a haunted house and failing to spot the ghosts; it has no narrative, no dialogue, and at least arguably no panels, though I guess you could also argue the rooms of the house sort of function as panels.

Okay, I still have been very busy lately and I haven't been posting here; sorry; I hope things will turn around in the new year. But anyway, today I participated once again in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop. It was hosted this week by Breena Nuñez (www.breenache.com), and the project was, basically, to draw a four-panel comic about your family's migration experience: where your family came from, memories of your first home, etc.

I don't have much of a migration story, per se; my parents still live in the same house they lived in since before I was born. Sure, if you go enough generations back, my ancestors came from other countries—England, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Wales—but my family doesn't really carry on any traditions from any of those places, and they don't really talk about them. So, well, I did what I could.

So, I participated again today in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop, hosted this week by Kit Fraser (@kitcadoodle on Instagram). This week, participants first did a warmup consisting of drawing a simple scribble that corresponded to some emotion, and then expanding that scribble into a character of some kind. (My chosen emotion was "tired"; the original scribble is the squiggly line extending from the tip of the beard to the top of the nose.) The second and larger project was to draw a three-panel comic with a building as a main character.