Drawing with Artem Alexei

This week we did life drawing with Artem Alexei from The Drawing Academy.

I learned some really helpful techniques in this class, especially how to work with the mass rather than the silhouette and contours.

 

 

Life drawing has never been my strong suit but I'm slowly improving :)

Introduction to sequential art with Paul Karasik

 

First week out of two with American Paul Karasik.

 

Assigment 1: We had to finish two strips from the comic Nancy, on which we had had a lecture on the day before.

 

 

Assignment 2: We had to make a three-page instructional comic, my prompt was "How to brush your hair." The day after we condensed it down to a single page (not shown).

We also had a lecture on how to do critique and we did group critiques of this assignment in small groups of five which was great, I found it really helpful to have fresh eyes to help me spot my mistakes.

 

The second week we were to make a 12 page comic about an event in our life. I started out doing the comic on my struggle with depression a few years ago, but I had a hard time making it work as there was too little actual story, and so halfway through the week I decided to scrap it and start over. Instead I told the story of a creepy neighbor I once had, here is a (not entirely finished) page from it for a general feel of the mood and style: