What's been happening at SAW lately?
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks in the SAW courses and Mighty Network groups!
TUESDAY COMICS INSPIRATION
Our main and FREE Mighty Network Group is where students from any and all courses (or none, if you’re just browsing through the main group) come to share their work, browse, get inspired, and give each other feedback. Last Tuesday, we shared some comics inspiring us, and asked students some of their current comic inspirations. Check out some comics students’ shared with this link!
Songs of the Field by Ryan Cecil Smith
Comics FLOW
Our Comics Flow Ongoing Group’s students have been keeping engaged and in flow with weekly prompts and exercises. Here’s an astonishing, multi-media comic shared in the group by student, David Wagenfeld called “Ghosting.” See the rest of the comic with this link.
Ghosting by student, David Wagenfeld
FROM THE Comics Writing Group
One of our Comics for Writers’ students, Kevin Rountree, recently published their first episode of their webcomic series and it’s fantastic!
It’s called “All Dark Matters” and you can access it by clicking this link!
All Dark Matters by student, Kevin Rountree
Six-Month GRAPHIC iNTENSIVE grOUP
One of our newer courses, SAW’s Six-Month Graphic Novel Intensive, just finished up a couple weeks ago! It’s been a blast of a community and really exciting to connect with people around the world! Don’t worry if you missed your chance to sign up this time, we’ll be running this class again! Stay tuned! Here’s a comic shared in the group by student, Michael Aschner.
Facing an Uncertain Future by student, Michael Aschner
Draw Jams!
Throughout the week we have free, community-run virtual Draw Jams via Zoom! You can find the links embedded in SAW's Mighty Network, with regular updates about times and themes.
Break! (for the Year-lONG STUDENTS)
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program just hit the mid-year mark!
Students just submitted their Final Assignment for session 2 and are on break! In the past two sessions, we’ve had a ton of fun learning about perspective; depth and details; modern comics; comics history; and gathering ideas. We also had some cool guest speakers like Leslie Stein and Brendan Burford (to name a couple) who talked comic creation and publishing! The break is well-deserved but we’re ready to dive into more comics in 2021!
Here are just a couple comic excerpts from our 2020-2021 Year-Long Program students!
Excerpt from Final Assignment 2 by Mikey W.
I Am A Fish Princess by Lora ChauDavis. Instagram: @lora_chaudavis
The Future of SAW
If you haven’t already heard, the physical Sequential Artists Workshop is moving! SAW’S moving down the street in Gainesville, FL to a new, accessible-building shared with the historic Gainesville Fine Arts Associations (GFAA).
But… We need your help. That’s why we’ve launched our end-of-year fundraiser and for the month of December, we’ll be bringing you stories of what we do and how we do it.
here’s a word from Tom:
“This move lets us literally put a sign out on the street, lets us put a beacon out there and light it and say, '“This is the space for comics. This is the space to take your whole self and dedicate yourself to comics for a year or an afternoon or a week. This is the place that you can grow into that artistic self you want to be.”
Find out more at our Go Fund Me page.
Right now, and for the unforeseeable future, we’re still holding many of our courses online, but fret not, our online community is booming; very welcoming; and extremely diverse. Still, stay tuned to see when we will be offering in-person workshops again!
I WANT TO MAKE AND READ MORE COMICS!
Want to get the ball rolling on your own comic creation?
Do you have a story inside you that’s just itching to come out, but want some guidance to help push it out?
Learn more about intensive comics learning with teachers at SAW by checking out SAW’s Year-Long Intensive Program and our Six-Month Graphic Novel Intensive.
Be sure to also check out our Online Courses, since some courses are offered year-round and are always enrolling!
And come see what we’re all up to on SAW's Mighty Network, anytime!
Cheers,
Karlo