We had an "extra" Visiting Artist this week! Richard Fairgray came all the way from New Zealand to talk to us about his work, the state of comics in New Zealand, Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey and how that relates to children' books (the First Year students are working...
The pages are reproduced much larger below and I'll transcribe the comic's text too in case you are visually challenged. ;-) In July, I had this Genius Idea (i.e.: "what was I thinking?!"). I would force myself to draw a Cartoon-A-Day. By using a planner/journal - if...
We had lots of visitors and guest professors, and we learned a lot about story structures and plot. I guess it was the Week of The Story - even our Visiting Artist, was actually a Visiting Author. Jo Knowles writes YA books based on her own experiences. I've got a big project due...
Self-explanatory? I love integrating my sketching assignments into a comic!...
Ohmigoodness! The Fireman is trying so hard. He says the "Relationship Clock" is stuck at "Noon". (See comics #5 and #33 if you don't know what this means)! This comic came from a sketchbook assignment at school, to draw an exterior and interior of a building....
Sigh. Yes, I KNOW! And yet, who can actually resist chasing that dang little light around?...
