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Student Copy Cat Drawings
One of the best ways to learn to make comics is to copy other cartoonists. I think of it like a musician covering a song. In the Comics Room, one of the things we do is color layered drawings, beginning with a version in yellow, followed by orange or red and then blue, all one on top of the other. Then we use black, either color pencil as in these drawings or in ink. There is something about drawing in quick color layers that helps us really find the image. When we’re drawing it four times on the same page we become familiar with the picture in a way that is physical, like driving through a new neighborhood four times, just repeating the route in order to learn the lay of the land quickly.
Drawings from Making Comics 1, Spring 2022
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Lesson Plan
First day of Making Comics 1 and there is a lot to remember. I write down the different steps on individual cards and lay them out on the counter at the front of the class. When we complete them I put them on the pink chart. There are always cards left over at the end of class, things we didn’t get to that I’ll save for the next class.
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Disgruntled Girl
This is a picture I often ask students to copy. Buy the fifth week of class together, people’s drawing styles are recognizable to each other. Without seeing a name on the drawing, most of us can say who drew what.This has always fascinated me.What are we recognizing? How are we able to do this without making any effort toward it? What sort of learning is this?
