DRAWING COMICS for Everyone! *ALL skill levels, ALL styles, and ALL genres are welcome! This class will include a series of fun 1-day projects and challenging drawing games to build up and expand student’s storytelling talents. Great for learners who want to draw comics/manga. ALL
MATERIALS INCLUDED for all five classes.
DAY 1: Name tags – Diary comics (3-panel true story) Group prompts to create a collective comic page (fundamentals/basics of page layout) – Critique
DAY 2: “What’s in the box?” (creating 4-panel suspense stories) – Exterior/Interior/close-up (3-panel page) – Backgrounds – Critique
DAY 3: “Dream” story -1 Page Jam comic (improvisational storytelling) – Prompts (specificity/ reference) -Critique
DAY 4: Character design/ turnarounds – Tell each other a story/ Illustrate -Silent story/ mistakes and resolutions (clear visual storytelling) -Critique
DAY 5: One-page story (putting previous lessons to work)