May 17, 2025
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Dearest Making Comics TWO Students,
I’m still sick and won’t be able to keep up with emailing today in real time but class is still on and in the Comics Room. Please get to the classroom on time. I’ve asked classmate Chef to time the attendance for us today.
For attendance I’d like you to draw yourself in a police line up. Use your dip pen.
Here is the song I’d like you to draw to: It’s about 3.5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xP6hmh3Hc
Then you’ll start today’s exercise: You’ll be spending the full class time on this assignment, with the goal of working in time together as a class and having it finished by the time class ends. This exercise is intended to build on all of the dip pen and brush work you’ve done over the last 14 days and to get you to pace your drawing to specific time limits.
It’s critical that you draw like crazy with your dip pen and brush today because your hands and the back of your mind are getting the hang of it (even if you can’t tell) and I don’t want that lost.
Materials:
Ink, dip pen, brush
Your comp book
The homework you did for this week.
Ruler
NP blue pencil
10 index cards
One piece of Strathmore 11 x 17 Bristol paper, oriented horizontally with a half inch border all around.
You’ll be spending the full class time on this assignment, with the goal of having it finished by the time class ends.
The idea for this class comes from the interview you watched with Jaime Hernandez on Monday. He talks about getting to know his characters as he is drawing/writing them. He talks about characters making unexpected choices, saying something like its when one of his characters decides to go one way instead of another way and he thinks, oh, that’s who you are.
Your assignment is to find five or more side characters from any of the work you’ve done this semester and draw them in a police line up. They’ve done something to get themselves there, but you don’t have to know what it is yet. They’ll tell you as you go along.
PART ONE: The Gathering 20 minutes 1:55- 2:15
For this section someone will need to keep time for the class— announcing countdown at five minute intervals so everyone knows how much time is left and you keep pace with each other.
START by spending 20 minutes using what ever work you have on hand or in your comp book to find five to ten side characters — by this I mean characters who appear in the backgrounds or who are hinted at or mentioned but not fully formed. They can be anywhere. You don’t have to be able to see them in the work you’ve done, just knowing they may be in there is enough. For example. If one of your strips has a shop in the background, they may be in that shop. Or they may have built that shop.Or they may be in the alley behind the shop getting high, Or they may go in and rob that shop.
When you find a character, do a fast drawing of them from head to toe on an index card in NP blue and write down anything you are thinking about them. Who are they? This is meant to be a quick character sketch.
Don’t be picky. Accepting any character you find is the key to this exercise.
PART TWO: The Line Up: 25 mins NP blue work, 2:20 - 2:45
For this section someone will need to keep time for the class— announcing countdown at five minute intervals so everyone knows how much time is left and you keep pace with each other. Get your frame drawn with an half inch border all around. PUT YOUR NAME AND DATE ON THE BACK, HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER.
Draw some very light NP blue parallel lines across the entire 11x17 page like background of a police line up.— you can use the width of the ruler to make it simple. You’ll fill in the numbers later It’s critical that you keep your NP blue lines really light here. They should be visible but barely.
Using NP blue, draw one of the characters in the middle of the page, right on top of the parallel lines. they have to appear from top of head to bottom of shoes, wearing clothes that are specific to them. Have them stand in a way that has something to do with who they are. They will need clothes with details on them and if there is an object or signature weapon they may have with them, draw that too.
Remember to concentrate on your line work rather than shading. Line work in clothing details too. Shading will come when you begin to ink.
!IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! If all of your characters in your line up are the same height, standing in the same way in the same clothes with the same looks on their faces you’ll know something about the way you draw characters that you may not have known before and you’ll need to change that up. Body types vary widely. So do arm positions, legs in various stances, head shapes, clothes, hairstyles, noses, moods and signature weapons or objects. The line up will help you see what drawing ruts you may have fallen into without noticing and give you a chance to do something about it.
If you get stuck, remember that wherever you look in our Comics Room there are characters want to help you. Feel free to borrow a shirt or shoes or face or hairstyle from any of the characters that surround you in our class.
PART THREE: Work the Line 2:50-3:40 For this section someone will need to keep time for the class— announcing countdown at five minute intervals so everyone knows how much time is left and you keep pace with each other.
Now ink in all of your line work, including plaids and stripes and any patterns on the characters clothing. Think abut hair texture and shoe details and jewelry. You will have exactly ten minutes for each character and you’ll need to find a way to time your line work into that rhythm. The goal is to work to the beat. The first five minutes should get you halfway there, the second should get you all the way through.
You can’t finish early or late. You have to work hard to stay exactly on pace. This means you’ll have to begin to estimate how long it takes to cover a dress with tiny flowers on it, or to make the plaid pattern on the coat.
PART FOUR: Solid Black 3:45-4:05
For this section someone will need to keep time for the class— announcing countdown at five minute intervals so everyone knows how much time is left and you keep pace with each other.
Spend 20 minutes using your brush to fill in areas of solid black. Look at the work you did on Monday to help you remember how Jaime Hernandez does it.
Work to get an even, solid black without over soaking the paper with ink or being too spare.
PART FIVE: LINE UP!!
4:05-4:15
Go into the hallway and hang your line up in the glass case. (You may have to take down the work that is there first, please put it on my desk.) The line up should be in two parallel rows, starting on the right side of the first glass case and moving leftward. If everyone is in class, there will be two rows of 11 pages each when you finish.
PLEASE TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR COMPLETED LINE UP AND SEND IT TO ME BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS. Try to align the edges of your drawing with the edges of the camera frame as best you can.
I miss you all very much and I’m going to find a way to make up this lost time together.
I look forward to seeing you next week.
Prof SASQUATCH!
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This is so funny to me
Do we talk about this or......
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