Improve your ability to communicate through word and image.
Uncover different aspects and perspectives on the comics-making process.
Explore the essence of what makes comics unique through invigorating and contemplative workshops.
Why not tickle your brain with comics?!!
THIS WEEK:
- How What Why Are Comics? (Opening Up Panels, Contents, and the Space Between)
- An introduction to what makes a comic a comic. A panel a panel. And a gutter a truly fascinating place to be.
- How What Why Are Comics? explores what makes the comics medium unique, how we are acculturated to comics, and the interaction between the comics creator and the comics reader.
- PLEASE NOTE!! This week's workshop is both online and coming live, in-person from Bubonicon 53 in uptown Albuquerque!
Between the Panels, 7000 BC's series of pay-what-you-can online comics workshops return to enliven your 2022. Sharpen your pencils, roll out the virtual paper and get ready to draw upon your strengths. Join us as we explore a storytelling medium like no other. Drop-in students are welcome!
Registration is required. Workshop registration is through Eventbrite.
- How Many Radioactive Squirrels Does it Take to Make a Comic? (Clear Storytelling with Banana-Thieving Squirrels)
- Exploring too much and too little.
Sat., Sept. 10, 2022 - w/ Guest Instructor Paul Ziomek!
- The Shape of Characters to Come (Character Definition and Quick Draw Mug Shots)
- Visualizing a character's stance by their stance, within a wall of ugly (and otherwise) mugs.
- The Down Elevator to Backstory (Design Sheets and Fictional Pasts)
- Speak swiftly and carry a big sketchbook. What floor, please?
Sat., Sept. 24, 2022 - w/ Guest Instructor Paul Ziomek!
- Thumbnailing with Kaiju Claws (Enhancing Story with Tiny Broad Strokes)
- How many ways can you trim your thumbnails and still have them be your thumbnails?
