Comics Experience founder Andy Schmidt has announced the next topics for upcoming Live Workshop sessions!
Our Live Workshop sessions are online, monthly events, and they’re available exclusively to Creators Workshop members.
Each Live Workshop discussion focuses on a unique topic geared toward helping comic creators achieve their personal best. Past sessions have covered subjects like maximizing income, reinventing characters, negotiating collaboration agreements, and many more!
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Details about our next three Live Workshop sessions are below. We hope you’ll join us!
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 9:00 pm ET
5 Key Storytelling Mistakes to Look for in Layouts
ANDY SCHMIDT: Comics is all about the story–writers and artists both bringing storytelling skills to the page. That’s why we want COMICS writers and COMICS artists instead of playwrights and illustrators. When we work on projects without an editor, it’s often one person or two people really working closely together. In these scenarios, we often review layouts or thumbnails of a page before the artist goes to full pencils and inks. We do this to look for potential storytelling issues. In this Live Workshop, Andy will go over the top 5 mistakes he sees in layouts and what to do about them to make the story shine on the final page.
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 9:00 pm ET
Breaking the Grid: Comic Page Design that breaks out of the traditional grid-like pattern
ANDY SCHMIDT: The grid and the three-tier system are the backbone of clear visual storytelling in comics. But there are underlying rules to them–rules that almost automatically snap into place when a grid is used in the layouts. In this session, Andy analyzes some of those underlying principles to show how to apply them to art that breaks the grid system or pops out of panels. If the principles are applied properly, pages without panel borders can still flow naturally and intuitively for any reader.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Writing for a Particular Artist: Identifying and using an artist’s strengths
ANDY SCHMIDT: We’ve seen in interviews when a writer says s/he writes to an artist’s strengths. I’m not sure how true that always is, but it’s a useful skill and one that artists do tend to like. In this live workshop, Andy breaks down how to first identify an artist’s illustrative strengths and weaknesses artistically, and then how to craft a story to highlight the artist’s strengths and minimize the artist’s weaknesses. The result is a project that looks great and serves as an excellent portfolio piece for the artist.
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If you want to make comics, write, draw, letter, and color comics, or improve as a comics creator, you’ll find like-minded friends and colleagues in our online workshops and courses. We hope to see you there!
Posted by Nicole Boose