Create Your Own Comic Book ~ Saturday Class

This course is a two-month program on how to create your own comic book. This course will be taught by Guy's comic book colleague, Steve Bove, with guest lectures by Guy Gilchrist. Steve is a graphic artist and has worked for Sesame Street and DC Comics. The Comic Cartoonist's course provides information and exercises designed to get you started on the path to understanding the comic art form and what it has to offer you. The course's main goal stresses the idea of finding out WHO YOU ARE as an artist and cultivating work in the commercial art field. Some subjects that are included in the comprehensive class are:

       Comics as a Profession
       The Human Figure
       Drawing
       Emotion & Expression
       Sketching
       Perspective
       Foreshortening
       Light & Shadow
       Writing
       Layout & Design
       Storytelling
       Lettering
       Inking
       The Cover
       Character Development

This course is suitable for all ages and abilities.








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