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.