What's happening at SAW?!
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks in the SAW courses and Mighty Network groups!
THE FLY (INKING AND VISION WITH JUSTINE ANDERSEN)
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program students just started their 3rd Session a couple weeks ago! One of our 3rd Session courses, taught by Justine Andersen, require the use of ink and an inking brush. Justine starts the course off by having students ink this FLY BEFORE they gain any knowledge on inking from the course in order for students to track their progress throughout the course based on this first inked fly.
Check it out!
Above: Fly inked by student, Xris Parsell
Above: Fly inked by student, Aman King
COURSE COMING UP: STORYTELLING FLOW
Our Storytelling Flow Online-Course launches again on January 20th, 2021!
If you’re feeling stuck, unsure where to turn, or overwhelmed by your ideas, come join us!
COMICS FLOW
Our Comics Flow Ongoing Group’s students have been keeping engaged and in flow with weekly prompts and exercises. One of our students, Donna Druchunas, is working on a series of 20 page 6x9 inch comic booklets about Lithuanian folktales tied together with memoir material about her travels in Lithuania and other things related to her relationship to the folktales. Here are some recent pages she shared on her progress!
Comic pages by student, Donna Druchunas.
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.
Come draw with us and chat about comics!
polyomino IN THE YEAR-LONG PROGRAM
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program students just started their 3rd Session a couple weeks ago!
Last week, students tried their hands at POLYOMINOES. What the heck is a polyomino? Beats me.
No, but really, polyomino in comics form is influenced by regular polyomoes or “anagrams.” It’s the rearrangement of all the same panels in a comic, to mean something different than they did originally. Get the gist?
Here’s an example from one of our students, Juan Astasio.
First Polynomial comic arrangement by student, Juan Astasio
Second Polynomial comic arrangement by student, Juan Astasio
Juan even provided a short, time-lapse of him creating this comic!
SAW MOVED
If you haven’t already heard, the physical Sequential Artists Workshop moved! We moved down the street in Gainesville, FL to a new, accessible-building shared with the historic Gainesville Fine Arts Associations (GFAA)!
Thanks to all the support we received for our end-of-year fundraiser we were able to move! There’s still a ways to go, but Emma Jensen is making headway in organizing the amazing, new SAW location for future in-person students!
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.”
Right now, and for the unforeseeable future, we’re still holding many of our courses online, but don’t worry, 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 serious about 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