Calling all creative enthusiasts who love comics, manga, and cartoons and want to develop your artistic voice. This engaging and inspiring drawing course teaches you to express yourself authentically while having genuine fun throughout the creative process.
You will learn essential techniques for drawing comics, cartoons, and manga while developing your unique artistic style and personal creative voice. Our professional artist-educators share the specific tips, tools, and techniques needed for this medium and provide both group instruction and individualized guidance. Students consistently tell us our art classes are the highlight of their week.
This interactive, engaging course emphasizes:
- Fear-free, non-judgmental instruction with one-on-one support from experienced educators
- Specific techniques for comics, cartoons, and manga, combined with encouragement for personal expression
- Developing your distinctive drawing style while mastering essential techniques, including face and feature drawing, figure movement, expressive character design, and characters within unique environments
- Personalized feedback on fundamental drawing skills, including storyboarding, character imagination, text bubble placement, line quality, mark-making, and creating your own comic strips
- Diverse artistic exercises and vocabulary specific to cartoon, comic, and manga styles
- Exploration of your creative imagination through artwork you feel genuine pride in
- Building confidence in your artistic process and strengthening your creative self-esteem
- Enjoying proven health and wellness benefits of artistic practice, including increased self-confidence, improved focus and concentration, reduced stress and anxiety, and enhanced communication abilities
Art Class Materials:
Materials are not included in your course fee.
You will need the following supplies:
- Pencil or pencil set with varying darkness values
- Eraser; kneaded or vinyl erasers work well
- Drawing paper at least 8 by 10 inches in size
- Colored pencil set
- Black thin-line marker or Sakura Pigma Micron black pen
- We recommend Blick Art Materials; however, any quality brand will work
Required materials and specific course requirements will be provided in more detail upon enrollment.
