Wednesday, October 20, 2021 @ 7-8:30pm CDT via Zoom

Description:

Each week of this class will allow us to explore various elements of comic books and graphic novels (lettering, panel design, drawing, coloring, etc). We will look at different styles of drawing - whether that is anime, manga, or stylistic choices when an artist or illustrator uses pencil, marker, or even paint. Understanding these styles better, we will then practice them ourselves!

We'll start each session with a fun, easygoing warm up. We will then practice different aspects of comic books, from outlining, sketching in ideas, playing with dialogue boxes, building characters, and developing them so they feel real and relatable.

This week we will concentrate on ways to help you tell your story through a comic book format. Note: You can attend this session without having attended the previous introduction session!

What You'll Need:

• Pencil, ink pen, and lots of paper (which can be watercolor paper if you'd like to paint it later).

About Mallory Shotwell:

Mallory Shotwell is an interdisciplinary artist and arts educator. In her art practice, she works with storytelling/interview, audio, photography, and video to share stories based on a theme. She majored in English at Aquinas College in Michigan, and later French and Elementary Education at Edgewood College in Madison. She worked as a public school teacher in Michigan and as a Montessori teacher in Madison. In her teaching practice, she utilizes multiple learning styles to serve and respect people's needs.

Zoom access is provided by our Technology Sponsors, the Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative and UW Carbone Cancer Center.