SPINE

I had a lot, i mean A LOT of fun doing this. I got to talk about the history of comics for the first day. The second day, I drew the assignment on the board as I was explaining what to do. First, there was faint blue ink on the board – they kept complaining about how it was invisible. I kept smiling and assuring the crowd that it would all make sense soon. As, I explained the principles and importance of doing a preliminary rough sketch, penciling and inking, I picked up the strong red marker and “inked” my own “pencils”.

Their eyes lit up – all of a sudden it made perfect sense why people make comics the way they do. Doing two different passes of your drawings will let you focus on different things at different stages so that you don’t have to worry about everything at the same time. First, we do the rough sketch and only and ONLY think about composition. Then, we pencil and think about proportions, shapes and areas. At the end, we ink. During this, we think about line variation, weight, surface, patterns and of course – making it look bad ass. Here’s the assignment board:

Here’s some feedback after the class:

“Cihan was an amazing drawer, and he inpired me to really try on my drawing and I thought it turned out well. He also helped me and everyone else figure out what we wanted to do with our drawings to take them further. I really enjoyed doing it and I hope I can do something similiar again.” – Hannah P.

“The comic class was fun! Even though I’m not a great drawer I enjoyed drawing & learning about comics. It was also fun to watch other people draw.”

The comic class/workshop was awesome. It inspired me to draw to draw a different style of art than I usually do.  I learned a lot though, and had fun. So THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME!  – M. Turk

I liked making comics!!! ; )

“Good times. Would’ve loved to be mentored. But, sadly, I couldn’t due to my schedule.” – Eric H.

The comic workshop was… TOTALLY      RAD

SPLAT!     SWOOSH!      BAM!!

POW!