SAW ROUND UP! Abstract Comics, Expanding Ideas, and more!
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups!
SNAKES!!
Not real snakes! Our Going in For the Snakes Intensive Course just kicked off last week and students are already diving headfirst into the exercises. One of the first exercises in the course is to create an abstract comic from a noun and some lyrics (that’s just a brief explanation of it). Here are some fantastic examples from our students in their first week of Going in for the Snakes!
By Tori Milner. IG: @toritrex.art
By Benjamin Lee Hicks IG: @benjam1n_blue
By Mara McCormick. IG: @steeltoedblues
By Miles Pennick IG: @sleepy.sound
By Paddy Lynch. IG: @pad.lynch
STORYTELLING FLOW
Our Storytelling Flow Online-Course finished up the last couple weeks and students created some amazing work over the last 6 weeks of the course. Here is just a snippet of the creative work materialized during the course period!
Here’s an example of EXPANDING an idea in Storytelling Flow by student Amy Cecilia!
by Amy Cecilia. IG: sunshineblossoms
An example of SHRINKING an expanded idea by student Katharina Kran!
By student Katharina Kran. IG: @katharina.kran
And here’s an example of a FINAL COMIC student Meg Sump put together by the end of the course!
First page of a final comic by student Meg Sump
We’re THRILLED to see students thriving and exploring their own unique ideas like these!
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!
FOURTH SESSION OF SAW’S YEAR-LONG PROGRAM
Our online Year-Long Intensive Program students are currently working hard with their peers and mentors on the 4th and final session of the Year-Long Program! The FINAL final assignment will be due by the end of April! Stay tuned to see some amazing final assignments from our 2020—2021 Year-Long Program students in our future Round-Up blog posts!
Here’s a sneak peak on one student’s (Kevin Curley) progress in their FINAL COMIC.
By Kevin Curley. IG: @bucketsofsighs
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