A new class for anyone wanting to improve their visual skills!
We have a great plan for this class, and will be launching the concept at Artwalk this month, March 29. On display at Artwalk will be Justine’s complete professional narrative illustrations (Dungeons & Dragons, Lucasfilm, etc., all work NEVER shown in Gainesville), from pencils to inks to watercolor finish. Come for a preview!
From Justine: Throughout the course of the class I will be taking you (the students) through each of the steps I took to go from start to finish (from composition to symbolism, from pencils and inks to final watercolors), and over the 6-week course YOU will be creating finished full color illustrations, guided one step at a time by me! This class will be more comprehensive and more focused on the end result than most of my practice and technique-heavy classes. At the end of the 6 weeks you will have something finished to show for your time!
Class is Thursdays beginning April 4 – May 9, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Facebook event for the class here
Facebook event for ArtWalk event here
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Single Session Intro to Comics Workshop, Saturday Feb 23, 11:00 am – 5:00 pmSingle Session Workshop Tom Hart will lead new creators through the basics and mechanics of making comics in this lively 6 hour session. Through lecture, exercises, critiques and games, we’ll start with nothing and make a full story by the end of class. Pencils and paper are provided, just come with a real interest in telling visual stories. Single Session Saturday Feb 23 6 hours, 11am-5pm $45 or sliding scale.
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Lo-Fi Creativity for Hi-Tech Minds
The art of creativity, new ideas and the glory of making a mess.
Educator, award-wining cartoonist and director of SAW (The Sequential Artists Workshop) Tom Hart will come to your organization with a 2-3 hour professional development workshop designed to pull everyone out of their routines and into new creative solutions for your group’s goals and challenges.
Utilizing games, structure, obsessions and a little bit of chaos, Tom will take your group and encourage and enable them to surprise themselves; unlocking ideas, finding combinations, and in the end creating stories and themes that they can take into their future work and explorations.
There will be drawing, but no experience is necessary. Participants won’t need anything but curiosity, seriousness and playfulness in relatively equal measures.
Your organization can choose between a number of set workshops. All workshops include a small projected presentation and then discussion and work time and a constructive debrief.
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ROM Workshop Using a remake of ROM: Space-Knight by Josh Bayer (original by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema, Marvel Comics), we’ll look at how these simple heroic/loner archetypes can become springboards for personal ideas, organizational myths and lots of fun. Bayer’s ROM is one of a popular trend in updating an older generation of commercial stories, for today’s sensibilities. image (c) Josh Bayer and probably Marvel Comics–> |
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How To Say Everything Workshop Working from the ideas on Tom Hart’s HTSE blog, we’ll create a cast of characters and imbue them with life and ideas and begin mixing and matching to tell intertwined stories. Through collaborative efforts and personal ideas, and lots of surprises, we’ll create our own group comic booklet devoted to our organizational mythology. |
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Abstract Storytelling Workshop Starting from metaphor and then moving into the completely abstract. We’ll explore and create everything from rough expressionism to gridded visualizations from mathematical data, and then look at the narrative connections inherent in these images. |
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Kaboom and Hug Participants will spend time mining a set number of silly images for narrative possibilities, and work to create their own booklet by the end, each by hand, including gluing and binding. The individual results of this workshop are often as unique and interesting as a Meyers-Briggs test, but a lot more fun. |
Tom Hart is an award winning cartoonist who has worked in advertising, animation, comic strips, and has had multiple graphic novels published, one of which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel. He is a veteran teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and is Executive Director and Founder of The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida, and is currently working with the Department of Defense to create an online comics curriculum for veterans and service members.
Workshops are mostly limited to the North-Central Florida area, including Orlando, Gainesville, Tampa, as well as Jacksonville, etc. Workshop pricing is individual and depending upon numerous factors including materials, travel etc. Please contact Tom Hart at hutchowen@gmail.com or thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org to inquire.
Our individual faculty members are also available for single workshops in drawing techniques, etc. Please contact thesaw@sequentialartistsworkshop.org to inquire about those.
Online classes, lectures and tutorials
We will be working with comics professionals to establish online-learning courses. In addition, SAW will publish/present its own online step-by-step course featuring online mentoring. Click Classes>Online for more info
Year-long intensive
Our two-semester program is accepting applications for 2013. More info here.
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I absolutely love SAW. It was fun and relaxing and a wonderful experience. I attended their two week teen summer program creating a six page comic which was displayed at one of the Art Walks. SAW is a sanctuary for budding artists who can learn the basics or for those artists like myself are a little rusty
Thank Caia!