A relaxed meetup with a focus on cartooning for teens and adults, the sessions include group discussion topics and one or two exercises, depending on complexity. Although the sessions are very casual, a goal for this series will be to collect no less than two completed works, whether single panel cartoons, drawings (inked, ideally), or comic strips from each student, for the group “zine”*.
CARTOONING HISTORY OVERVIEW: Let’s start with sharing what we like. What have you felt yourself respond to the strongest? What are you a fan of and why…and how would you draw something similarly? Various drawing materials will be demonstrated as needed.
DRAWING BASICS: Perspective, figure, line, tone, rhythm and composition.
CHARACTER CONSTRUCTION: How do we put together, using only a few ink lines, memorable characters?
LETTERING: Hand lettering lends personality and unifies your drawing since it is part of your drawing.
SEQUENTIAL ART: A discussion on comics, animation and their origins and special language.
JUXTAPOSITION: In this session we get very experimental and run through some fun creativity exercises.
GROUP WORKSHOP AND ZINE FINALIZATION: Deadline to hand in art for the group zine (details will be worked out in prior class meetups) Otherwise this session will be improvised: Will it be a comics jam? Shall we draw caricatures of each other? Ideas are welcome!
Location: Tsuga Fine Art & Framing in Bothell.
Dates & Times: Tuesdays, March 10, 17, 24, 31, April 7, 14, 21 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Maximum attendees: 10
Registration: email the instructor at griffyz@gmail.com
Cost: $120 for the 7 sessions of this beginners’ course, payable anytime prior or at first session – Refundable if attendee changes mind after first session. I accept PayPal (same email as above) , credit cards, checks and cash.
No refunds for missed classes otherwise.
Please provide email, telephone number or some form of contact means, at time of registration.
Anyone is welcome to email me any time at all, with questions about the class series.
*zine noun
\ ˈzēn \
Definition of zine: MAGAZINE
especially : a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter
- Merriam - Webster
Welcome to my web site!
My name is Christopher Griffin and I am a cartoonist and illustrator. I work in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache and oil paint. I have also worked in silk screen printing, relief printing, airbrushing and sculpture.
I have been published in the San Diego coffeehouse newspapers North Park News and The Espresso, The Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine and in Mortimer Megapress of Tacoma Washington and have designed and illustrated ads which ran in Seattle's free weekly The Stranger.
I designed the logo for The Neptune Music Company in Seattle’s University District and have created spot illustrations as well as covers for band CDs and posters for live music shows and other events. In the 1990s I was employed at Distributel, a silk screen studio located in the Kearny Mesa suburb of San Diego, designing custom logos for promotional products and sportswear and at Wherehouse Records as an airbrush and 3D artist, creating oversized promotional displays promoting new record company releases. I have also worked as a custom picture framer, freelance comic book inker and sign painter.
My name is Christopher Griffin and I am a cartoonist and illustrator. I work in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache and oil paint. I have also worked in silk screen printing, relief printing, airbrushing and sculpture.
I have been published in the San Diego coffeehouse newspapers North Park News and The Espresso, The Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine and in Mortimer Megapress of Tacoma Washington and have designed and illustrated ads which ran in Seattle's free weekly The Stranger.
I designed the logo for The Neptune Music Company in Seattle’s University District and have created spot illustrations as well as covers for band CDs and posters for live music shows and other events. In the 1990s I was employed at Distributel, a silk screen studio located in the Kearny Mesa suburb of San Diego, designing custom logos for promotional products and sportswear and at Wherehouse Records as an airbrush and 3D artist, creating oversized promotional displays promoting new record company releases. I have also worked as a custom picture framer, freelance comic book inker and sign painter.
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