WHAT'S UP AT SAW?
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups!
SAW INSTRUCTOR NEWS!
SAW Co-Founder, Leela Corman, taught a Believer Mag Friday Night Workshop last week! Here are a few comic examples pulled from Instagram from students who participated in her workshop! #fridaynightcomics
More Leela Corman News!
It is also confirmed that Leela will be teaching a longer comics course at SAW in 2021! Stay tuned!
Check out Leela’s Believer Mag Workshop recap video by clicking this link!
Guest Artist, Annie Mok!
Our February Guest Artist was Annie Mok!
Students in our Year-Long Intensive Program, Comics Flow Group (SAW’s cheapest course option with access to Pro-Calls), and other exclusive online SAW workshops have access to Monthly Pro-Calls where they are able to interact with Comic Pros! For the month of February, students got to chat with Annie Mok!
Annie Mok is a Twitch streamer, musician, & writer/artist whose client list includes Rookie Mag, Fanbyte, The Establishment, The Nib, Autostraddle, Image Comics, Boom! Studios, DC/Vertigo,The Comics Journal, ZEAL, Penguin/Random House Canada, Seven Stories Press, Sui Generis Health, St. Stephen's Human Services / Homeless Against Homelessness, and the Red Umbrella Project. New Jersey-raised, graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in Comic Art in 2009. She then spent a stint in Chicago, making mistakes that led to her 2015 Ley Lines #1 comic book, Unholy Shapes. Annie tweets and posts to Instagram @heyAnnieMok.
STORYTELLING FLOW
Our Storytelling Flow Online-Course were recently in their 3rd week of Storytelling Flow!
In their third week, students were instructed to EXPAND IDEAS using an exercise created by Tom Hart where they create a large, nearly 24-panel story that is longer and more complicated than what is actually necessary to the story. This is considered the “Story Base.”
Here’s just one example where student, Brandon Hankins, EXPANDED his story!
DRAW JAMS!
Throughout the week we always have free, community-run virtual Draw Jams via Zoom run by Barry Sawicki! 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!
Speaking of Barry Sawicki!
Draw Jam Host and SAW student, Barry Sawicki, is well into his the second chapter of his comic series! He recently shared a page he was procrastinating on, but he got through and got it done! Check it out!
Third session of SAW’s YEAR-LONG PROGRAM
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program students are concluding their 3rd Session of the YLP this week! Students are now creating/finishing up hand-held, two-track comics as their final assignment for the third session while also brainstorming ideas for their FINAL final assignment coming up with session 4!
Here’s are just a few pages of a 3rd Session Final Assignment project done by student, Kevin Curley!
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!
Our Comics Flow Group, for example, is year-round and always enrolling and is SAW's MOST AFFORDABLE course option with access to Monthly Pro-Calls!
And, of course, come see what we’re all up to on SAW's Mighty Network anytime!
Cheers,
Karlo