I’ve spent the last 6 months working in this sketchbook. Scribbling my last page of character designs, story notes, and testing out new drawing tools felt surreal, since I’m still very much in the thick of everything happening on these pages. It’s a conversation I haven’t finished, though the pages they occupy have been filled.…
There’s a big difference between a sketchbook and a portfolio. Growing up, I erased, scribbled over, and tore out my mistakes so that only my best work remained. I didn’t know any better at the time, but I could have gotten much more of out of my sketchbooks with a few simple tweaks. What I…
I teach comics workshops to children, teens, and adults. Most of my students are new to writing and/or drawing, and come with equal parts excitement and anxiety. I feel like my role is to make the creation process fun and accessible, while allowing the students to pursue whichever styles/genres/approaches interest them most. Week-long comics workshops…
Can You Draw the X House? Draw a square base with an ‘x’ inside and a triangle roof on top, using a single continuous line (no retracing existing lines). Do not lift pencil until finished. How many different ways can you draw the x house? Now Do It Again. And Again! I wish I could…
Centuries-old doodles from bored school boys? I’m all about that! I came across this article from Colossal this morning about medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel‘s findings, and am absolutely taken with the images and the evidences that I was not the only boy in school that let his pen wander. How great are these?!
“Doodling has never been a nemesis of intellectual thought. In reality, it is one of its greatest allies.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fx0QcHyrFk] “…Because doodling is so universally accessible, and it is not intimidating as an art from, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.”