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One on One Art Lessons for Comic Book Artists

Students will discuss a story idea and learn how to put it into their own comic, this will involve learning about layout, drawing characters, backgrounds, colouring, perspective and more.
mark chadwick
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In this class the student will learn all aspects of putting together a comic book, This will start with discussing what the comic is going to be about then coming up with the characters and how it will look on the page.

This will be very student led so if they prefer to just focus on marvel superheroes that's fine. However we can also look at DC comics, British comics (2000AD for example), anime comics and graphic novels. Also if they would like to focus on a particular aspect of comic book drawing we can do that too. For instance if they are not interested in doing a comic book page we can focus on perspective, shading, backgrounds, drawing faces or hands.

I will be screen sharing a large plug in digital tablet to teach which means students can clearly see what I am drawing. Also I can give advice if students wish to use a tablet (Ipad, Samsung etc) to learn on as they suit comic book drawing very well. 

So do you have to be good at drawing to start this class? Well obviously that would be great but no you don't have to be  a genius artist. This is an ongoing class and we have all the time needed to  focus on what they need to learn, whether that be drawing  faces, hands or getting the hang of perspective. Practice, in my opinion is the only way to improve. Practice, practice, practice and you will get there in the end. So the only thing you need for this class is a willingness to try and not give up :)   

Week 1: Story boarding (discussing what the story is about) and starting on the first page

Week 2: continuing with the first page and discussing if they would like to focus on particular aspects of making a come (drawing back grounds, shading etc) 

Week 3: discussing the layout for page 2 and continuing with drawing the story

Week 4: Continuing with page 2 (inking and colouring)

Further weeks will build on the subjects covered in the first 4 weeks and taking that knowledge to finish the comic and looking  at ant area the student would like to develop further.

Learning Goals

students will learn how to layout a comic page, draw dynamic figures, drawing in perspective, inking, shading and drawing comic book covers. Also  we wil be looking at different styles of comic book dawing like anime and graphic novels.
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The basic requirement is drawing paper, pencil, eraser and ruller. Other items can be something to colour with (Coloured pencils, marker pens, paints or ink pens.)  A good book to buy would be 'How to Draw Comics the Marvel way' by John Buscema and Stan Lee. It has lots of excercises  to do and filled with good easy to understand advice.
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Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
This is optional but a good book to buy would be 'How to draw comics the Marvel way' by Stan Lee and John Buscema.
Joined July, 2021
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I have been working with children (Wales, UK) for about 20 years in various settings. 

I have attended a Rudolf Steiner teacher training course and also qualified as an after school club leader. Mostly I have experience with home educated Children of all ages in a voluntary capacity. For 15 years I helped run a social group for home educating families and for the past 10 years (still doing this) I have helped with a large family camp for home educating families. This has involved a bit of everything. I've helped with animation classes, sport event and art classes. I have also taught making clay bread ovens and making bamboo pipes from bamboo. For the past couple of years I've helped out with a forest school club, mainly teaching the children (8-11 years) string tricks and making survival bracelets. 

My hobby is art which I've been doing on and of for 20 years. For the past year I've been teaching art online classes to a group of home educated children as what I mostly enjoy is passing on skills (whatever the subject) to others. But beware sometimes my cat joins in the online sessions! 

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