Manga Lab: Let's Learn To Publish Your Original Indie Manga Comic!
Do your children dream of publishing their own manga stories? Join our tribe of young anime otakus, develop a real "doujinshi" indie manga story and PUBLISH it onto Amazon Kindle (or a similar outlet)!
Mr. Dan
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(130)
What's included
1 live meeting
1 hrs 30 mins in-class hours per weekHomework
1 hour per week. Students will be encouraged to make page(s) of sketches during the week in a sketchbook, or make progress on their comic while not in class.Assessment
Student's progress will be assessed on a continual basis by regularly reviewing - and evaluating - each student's "work in progress" artworks. At the end of learning a subject manner, they will present their final drawing project alongside a "old drawing" they created at the beginning of the class, compare and witness their own growth that subject matter.Class Experience
*** Disclaimer: Because we aim to create a fairly relaxed, yet focused environment to expose our students with (sometimes) advanced design skillsets, I only teach about half of the class time, leaving the rest of the time for my students to work individually and "hang out". I highly recommended all novice-level students to take a intro-level course of mine before joining this lab for best experience. Thank you! - Mr. Dan*** Welcome to the Manga Lab! In this club, our aim is to create a fun, safe tribe of young talents to, in the long run, create their own "1-page / short episode" manga comic! (Or any manga-like projects.) Our club members will be exposed to practical manga knowledge / skills via watching and following my step-by-step in-person-demos. I will check-in with my students and help them make progress in their manga art learning. The class time is loosely structured as follows: Part 1: Rules, Warm-ups and Updates - When there are new students, I usually will briefly cover class expectations, help them with how to use Zoom. We may start the students off with a warm-up drawing drill. Part 2: Live Demo - Every week, I will touch on, review or introduce a manga drawing / comic story development skillset via live demos. Part 3: Lab Time - Our students will be encouraged to apply what they've learned as they work on their own artwork, talk while working, and find support / constructive feedback from me and fellow classmates. We will touch on and/or review many techniques relating to manga development, including but not limited to: ***Exciting New Topics Added*** • Intro to Vehicle / car design • How to design Aircraft / Spacecraft • Digital painting techniques using Procreate and/or Photoshop ***Regular Manga Lab Topics*** • Fundamental sketching techniques • Head & facial proportions • Hairstyles & eye styles • Costume design • Human body proportions • Gesture drawing • Contour drawing • Basic 3D perspective drawing • Basic human proportions • Environment design • Weather effects • Portfolio Development • Design Schools & Majors • Story development & structures unique to Japanese manga • Basic storyboarding techniques • Manga cell formats • .....and many more!
Learning Goals
Students will learn to develop key core skillsets that's required to illustrate their own manga comic.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Manga Lab may touch on studying the designs and engineering structures of firearms, weapons, vehicles and environments of military themes. In order to create a safe tribe, we allow NO display or discussion of blood, gore, excessively dark imageries or stories.
Supply List
**Disclaimer - The Amazon links provided below are my personal affiliate links provided for your convenience. When you make a purchase via these links, a small portion of that sales will help support Mr. Dan and the Drawing Clinic deliver unique, dynamic creative art teaching experiences and online contents. Students are free to buy whatever brands of materials they want as long as they function similarly.**
Strongly Recommended Art Materials:
1: White papers, Pencils, Erasers, Ruler
2: Black-ink pens or fine-liners in multiple sizes. (~$8.00 for a set of 3 ink pens)
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3: 1x Copic Skin-tone color marker (~$8.00 each) (Visit here for your reference: https://amzn.to/2W3INdN )
4: ONLY 1 set of Copic "Fusion 5" 3-color markers (~$17-23.00 for each set of 3 markers):
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5: Marker Papers (x1 pad) (Purchase here: https://amzn.to/2YNH6SF )
6: Brush Pen (Purchase here: https://amzn.to/2X2p9P8 )
7: Deleter Comic Manga Paper (Purchase here: https://amzn.to/3hA7w0O )
Students are also welcomed to bring their own:
1: iPad or a computer tablet with Procreate installed
2: A tablet stylus pen (for iPads, Apple Pencils *highly* recommended)
3: A desktop computer with Adobe Photoshop installed
4: (for desktop computers) a drawing tabletExternal Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
My unique education background & professional experiences (Art Center College of Design PROD 02, professional manga artist and concept artist in theme entertainment industry) helps me to bring to my students an "up-to-date" kind of experience - one that's infused with humor, diligent work, real-world-based insights and life experiences together.
My classes goes way beyond merely learning art. It is designed to inspire and equip the next-gen creative leader within every child or youth.Reviews
Live Group Class
$24
weekly1x per week
90 min
Completed by 75 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
4-18 learners per class
