Workshops

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Comics Camp Day Five

The final assignment was to design our cover!?! That does seem weird to do the cover last, but now it makes sense. I thought designing the last page was really hard, but this was worse. It took me two hours to think what it should look like and what to

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Comics Camp Day Four

Today's in-class exercise was about Dialog. We were paired up and given two characters and commanded to create a comic that used dialog to show the characters interacting and changing in some way. Part of the challenge was brainstorming and working with another person! This first one is the one

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Comics Camp Day Three

As usual - I'm not working on the project I thought I would. I've been working on the Demons, and their new friend(?) and other stuff from inside my head. I am so so so tired! But I don't want to go home and lose this momentum and unlimited possibility.

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Comics Camp Day Two

This was a fun, exhausting exercise we did in class today! If you'd like to see what I've been drawing for my personal projects, take a look at my Patreon page. Each student got a large sheet of paper that was divided into twelve sections (we have 10 students and

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Comics Camp Day One

It feels really good to be back in White River Junction, VT! There's so much inspiration all around the town. Even the alleyways have art! I'm taking the Young Adult Graphic Novel Workshop with Tillie Walden and Jo Knowles. This is a very sketchy comic done in about 45 minutes

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Ready, Set... Interview!

I'm the featured Illustrator today in Mira Reisberg's "Craft & Business of Illustrating Children's Books" course! It's a closed group on Facebook and I can't send you to the page, so I made a screenshot of Mira's introduction of me. It made me blush. And giggle "Sandy lives somewhere beautiful with

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Graphic Medicine Conference - Day Two

Here are my sketch-notes from today's conference: I was STARVING by lunch - which was also Day Two of the Marketplace. I stuffed bites of sandwich into my mouth between conversations. I did sell a few comics and buttons, but I think I spent a lot of it on other

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Graphic Medicine Conference - Day 1

While packing books to sell at the Comics and Medicine Marketplace... I had this overwhelming desire to create pins to go with my "We Will Never Leave You" comic. So I drew my favorite Demons and the Kid and I headed off to the studio and punched and pressed a

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Animation - The Rest of the Week

Again - I have all the animations up on my Patreon page - take a look! I stayed up late inking the pencils and scanning them, then ruined the whole thing with a botched batch processing... But this morning - I realized the black background actually looked better... so I

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Animation Reflux

I'm so glad I decided to take the Animation workshop with Alec Longstreth at the Center for Cartoon Studies -- AGAIN! I enjoyed it last summer too, but I didn't get the concepts, techniques, etc. firmly planted in my brain in a way that would let me actually USE them.

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The Craft & Business of Illustrating Children's Books

I wanted to let you all know about a fantastic online program that will be starting up in August - The Craft and Business of Illustrating Children's Books - run by Mira Reisberg of the Children's Book Academy. This isn't an affiliate link thing, I don't get paid for telling

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The Middlebury Diary, Part 2

I updated the first blog post with the photos, so take a look at that one HERE. Saturday was the BIG event! The Non-fiction Comics Mini-Fest at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, VT. I was surrounded by amazing cartoonists! Marek Bennett (in the hat) was responsible for telling me

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The Non-Fiction Comics FEST

I am so excited to be a part of the Non-Fiction Comics Mini-FEST sponsored by the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont! Here's the info from their webpage: Join us from 10am-4pm on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury for the second Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest!

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Lettering Workshop - Laura Di Piazza

I just came back from an excellent Lettering Workshop with Laura Di Piazza at the Center for Cartoon Studies. The best part was learning to use a COLA PEN (often made by folding a piece of a Coke can!) I loved the loose, scratchy, messy freedom. The faster and harder

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Graphic Medicine #3

The graphic medicine class with the Dartmouth Medical students is turning into a really fun event. The students, and the teachers, are getting into the swing of creating comics - its very impressive! The class is even planning an Anthology. I can't even wrap my head around that right now

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Graphics and Visiting Artist - Rebecca Mock

Lots of classes and note-taking last week! The second session of the Dartmouth Medical School - Graphic Medicine class was very entertaining! We did a group prompt where each group was given a slip of paper with a description... ours was "Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion playing strip poker.

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Visiting Artist and Ladybroad Ledger

Our Visiting Artist this week was Nick Drnaso. As you can see... ... my sketch notes are not up to my usual standards. (blush) I was multi-tasking, working on another project. Actually, I suck at multi-tasking. So I asked Kurt Shaffert if I could borrow his notes to share with you

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Graphic Medicine Class

I feel quite honored to have been asked to Sketch-note this new class being offered at CCS for a group of Dartmouth Medical School students! I have a huge interest in both visual note taking and the use of comics and images in the medical field. This first class was

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Try Your Hand at Cartooning!

I am SO excited to share this with you guys!!! My school, The Center for Cartoon Studies, is offering a FREE Cartooning Workout - by email! So you can try cartooning without having to travel to Vermont. It lasts one week and you can sign up any time. The class

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VA Hospital Sketch-notes

The program at the Veteran's Hospital is getting very interesting. The most recent session was about how to NOT over-empathize with every story we hear. Made me realize that I (and maybe a lot of other cartoon students) am not the best option to listen to the Vets stories and

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Cartooning Studio - Friday

The last day. The End. It's all over now. Some kind of magical chaos happening outside the storm... A few of the students were still inking in the classroom. Others were in the lab photocopying. I had been up till 3am again, but I had all the art scanned, cleaned

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Cartooning Studio - Thursday

Day Four - but who's counting, right? Oh? Deadline is counting? Eeeek!! That's quite a turbulent storm going on around him... Lots more good workshops today - Lettering (I adore lettering!), Webcomics, and how to photocopy, reduce and assemble the mini-comics the old-school way (without computers). Jon Chad also showed

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Cartooning Studio - Wednesday

Day 3... ummm... yeh - more intenser-er! I haven't gotten much sleep this week. Staying up till 2 or 3am and class starting at 9:30am. Yawn.... Luckily, our teachers are full of pep and energy. Here they are embellishing the Skull of Deadline Doom and giggling maniacally... No stress.

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Cartooning Studio - Tuesday

Day Two... starting to get more intense! When I signed up for this workshop, I had intended to work on what had started out as the "Rip-Off" graphic novel project (this past spring) - the magic trailer park story. I have about 8 pages done on that story and wanted

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Artsy Holiday Celebration

I'm sick in bed and just realizing two weeks have flown by since I got out of school for break. Whoosh! Just before Christmas, I got to participate in a Holiday Celebration at my daughter's elementary school. It was my kid's idea that I should volunteer to lead an art