Kenyon, Lyric, Asher, Stephen and I jammed out on the 19th, for the final meetup of the summer/fall comic art class series. Here are some of the results:
 I have learned a lot teaching cartooning once again, over the last few months at Willard Art & Frame and look forward to doing so again - with some changes. I might rearrange the sessions as well as hold off doing a series for a few months since Fall is here and the holidays will be on everyone's minds. I might host individual workshops. I am very fond of old school valentines and am wondering if a valentine making event would be interesting and fun for people.
I attended DUNE this evening, once again at Hugo House. I spent the first hour staring at my blank piece of paper, really just letting my mind reset after a very hectic day at the pawn shop and finally saw this brief scene play out in my imagination. With only three hours to draw it and hand it in, I went to it and, at about 8:00pm, decided it was finished. I did not intend it to be quite so Vaughn Bode meets Winsor McCay but there it is.  From Wired.com:
Here's what I came up with, back in March at the 88th Dune Minicomic night. It is based on a true incident which occured at work one afternoon! Last night was Dune Mini Comics Night at Hugo House again and this time I illustrated a text exchange between me and my wife Sarah from yesterday morning. I'm kicking myself for not drawing in a sad face emoji at the bottom of the text in panel two.   Here is my final piece, for session 3, after deciding on which text to pair with which image and coloring a separate blueline and then layering them together in GIMP. The text blocks are lines from Death Of A Salesman, selected completely randomly while flipping through an actors' edition of the play.  Here are some photos of the process from an exercise during this evening's class. The images were drawn based on prompts. The text blocks and images were shuffled about for humorous or otherwise interesting results.   Tonight I attended DUNE, in its return after a hiatus, to live, in person group form. It was held at The Hugo House in Capitol Hill and I am very glad I went. I believe this was the 86th Dune meetup and with me being graduating class of 1986 I guess it's some sort of kismet? Attendees were given four hours to create a piece of artwork and while I was at work today, I pondered what I might do. I had a rough idea but on the lightrail train to the event, I realized that it was pretty awful and wound up walking in to the Hugo House with no plan. It was cold today and once I got inside and seated, the warmth inside and the comfort of my chair after a busy day on my feet made me feel pretty sleepy. I sat staring at my paper for several minutes and then the idea popped into my head:  Well, I'm doing it. I'm heading back to the gallery classroom at Willard (formerly Tsuga) for another round of beginning cartooning sessions. I'm pumped! I'm also going to be on ZOOM on Wednesdays now that I have a laptop with enough juice to do it. |
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