#sequential artists workshop

[parttimereptile]

Ruins. Graphite on paper (June 2022). Created for Justine Mara Andersen's Depth and Details class with Sequential Artists Workshop.

[alunclewe]

So I just said in my previous post I was going to try to post more, so let me start that out by belatedly posting the comic I did for the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this past Friday.

The workshop was hosted this time by @mikedawwwson, and the assignment was simple: Just draw a four-panel comic about something that happened in your life. Although honestly in retrospect I'm not sure I totally followed the intended instructions, because when he showed examples he made a big point of pointing out the importance of the facial expressions, and the way I framed this comic my face is never fully shown. Oops. Oh well.

[beks-art]

So... I am in the Sequential Artist’s Workshop program this year! The 100% online version, because you could not pay me to live in Florida for an entire year in residency.

Instagram targeted ads are scary sometimes, but an ad came up for SAW several months ago and it had me really intrigued. Since for like... honestly the past couple years, I’ve been struggling with trying to get motivated to draw as often as I used to, but work has been slowly burning me out until it all boiled over last year. Seeing the SAW ad felt like a weird sign. It’s another year long endeavor that I’m doing, but instead of accounting classes for a job that I don’t like at all, it’s art and comics and at the end I will receive a sequential arts certificate.

It’s really liberating to just be in the process of learning these concepts and not feeling pressure to smooth these out and make them pretty. There’s no pressure at all for algorithms and exposure and trying to get retweets or likes or whatever the fuck (I saw, knowing full well I’m going to be tagging this appropriately and reblogging to my main blog later LMAO). It’s just a bunch of artists learning how to do comics. I’m not sure how much of my coursework I will post here but I wanted to put these up at least because I like the concepts I came up with. This was for the Storytelling class and it was practice work to do three narrative images. 

[sequentialartistsworkshop]

Need some inspiration? 

Listen to this talk by Lynda Barry while you work.

[alunclewe]

Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this week, because I'm working this afternoon. (Well... there's a slight possibility I may be able to make it if it turns out to be a very short workday. But it's unlikely.) But I did attend the workshop last week, and, uh, didn't get around to posting my comic until now.

Last week's workshop was hosted by Anand Shenoy (@anandpagalkutta on Instagram), and the theme was "aimless comics", basically just start with a grid of 2x4 panels and... draw a kind of an aimless story, without worrying about where it's going. The only further restriction was that there should be at least two panels with dialogue.

Anyway, when not given specific direction I guess my default tends toward drawing monsters, so here's what I ended up with.

[alunclewe]

So I participated again today in the @sequentialartistsworkshop free Friday Night Comics Workshop, this week hosted by @alabasterpizzo.  The project this week was to look up some place on Google Maps that we’ve never been, find at least one exterior view from Google Street View and one interior view by searching for information on a nearby building, and incorporate them into a three or four panel comic.

I picked a random coastal city in Norway, and here’s the comic I ended up with.

(And yes, I did say there were two previous Friday Night Comics Workshop comics I hadn’t posted yet and was going to, and also that I would finish the animation I started yesterday, and I haven’t done either of those things yet.  I will; just... not today I guess.)

[alunclewe]

I once again participated in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop, this time hosted by Katharine Woodman-Maynard (@woodmanmaynard on Instagram). The project for this week's workshop was to create a four-panel comic about a holiday (or a diary comic, if you were having trouble of thinking of anything related to a holiday), but either with some pattern between panels, or centered around some visual motif.

I ended up sort of combining two holidays...

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Lewis Trondheim!