course

course outline


Wellcome you all to this comic workshop.

As you see this class is most part practical, and so it may require a good amount of time. You know, practice makes perfection ;)

You know allready that all the work is going to be done in groups , just a reminder: you can change partner anytime you want to, but not while working on a project. I hope the group-working thing will allow you to work with people from all over the world, hope you find this interesting too. Besides, comic creation isnīt just about grabbing a story and drawing it in a paper. I expect you to communicate and work togheter with your partner , thatīs the principal reason of the creation of this class. So try passing troght some kind of messenger or thought the irc or e-mail the work both of you are doing, so all of the working members of a team knows howīs going the project and can soem ideas, thatīs the great point if this working way, in my opinion.

You all are invited to join the class irc channel #comicworkshop , you may use it as a place to contact your fellow classmates

And listen, you donīt have to be a drawing-master to join the class,evryone is invited, the only thing you need is time to spend with a pencil in your hand, or thinking a story.

The initial theorical part will be teached as a half term class (ending febrary the 28th) and during this time youīll be practicising different tipes of drawing, the Black and white Style and the colour one. You may think at a start that this is too much information, but i remind you that itīs a practical class, what means iīm not going to do any theorical exam. All this theory is only information for you.

From then on youīll be able to develop your favourite style in comic and the lessons will be some of the suggested ones (i ask you again to send me any submission on new ideas for lessons till december, so i know what youīd like to learn)

I have tought that 2 weeks per project should be enought time, but if most of you find itīs really very little time then weīll set the new class-calendar. Remember that thereīs only 1 mandatory project every 2 months. If we follow the original calendar (this one below) we are going to do 15 comics, so you can both start a new story each time or divide a long story into parts.

Ass you see below the second half-term donīt have any theorical parts, the point is that i ask you all to give me subbmission on wat you like to learn so iīll select some of them to make the lessons. You can post these ideas in a specific part of the forum: Iīll accep these ideas only from now till december.

 

What we are going to cover this year
Sept 1-15 Group forming. Introduction lesson
sept 15-30 Lesson 1 : Basic Writing lesson
nov 1-15 Lesson 2: writing a script. Basic drawing
Nov 15-30  
Dic 1-15 Lesson 3: Basic Plannign lesson. More on drawing (face & body)
Dic 15-30 Lesson 4: More on planning: Visual languaje. More on heads & body drawing
Jan 1-15  
Jan 15-30 Lesson 5: Inking . Working with black & whyte style
Feb 1-15  
Feb 15-30 Lesson 6: Colour. Working with colour
Mar 1-15

From here on the lessons will be settled in the future

Mar 15-30

(iīd had some made beforehand anyway)

Apr 1-15  
Apr 15-30  
May 1-15  
May 15-30  
Jun 1-15  

go back to class hall