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…
(Continued from Part 6: Making a Jam Comic) WE LOVE MAKING COMICS Comics have a language all their own. The unique combination of words and images make comics a broad medium, capable of telling all kinds of stories in all kinds of ways. I often give comics presentations to students and educators and am always…
(Continued from Part 4: Brush and Ink) CHARACTER DESIGN There are countless ways of developing new characters. For this exercise, we’ll be working on faces.ย Ask students to draw a 9-panel grid in their sketchbooks and to draw a different abstract shape in each square. The shapes are not supposed to represent or look like anything…