NOTES FROM SAW
Here’s the place to check out everything that’s been going on at SAW including what we're learning, reading and drawing.
What is Your Artist Like?
What is your artist like? What is your WRITER like? How else are the two separate for you and what metaphors work for you?
SAW UPDATES!
What’s been going on at SAW lately? Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups!
PUNK COMICS WORKSHOP! JUNE 21, 2021!
We have the pleasure of having cartoonists Josh Bayer and Hyena Hell doing another SLIDING-SCALE virtual punk comics workshop!
in this workshop, we go over drawing techniques, inking, some comics history, what makes YOU punk, and getting INK on that page!
Make Small Things and Finish
Draw the critic. Have a dialogue with it. Talk to it. Pick it with pins. Visualizing the internal struggles we have usually helps (a little). You just gotta transfer your understanding and competence with finishing something you can typically finish to comics. Not your competence with the medium, just your competence with finishing.
Do You Ever Worry That You Won't Get it Right?
Do You Ever Worry That You Won't Get it Right? Here are some thoughts from NY Bestselling Graphic Novelist and SAW Founder, Tom Hart.
Is It a Comic or Just Words and Pictures?
Is it a comic or just words and pictures? For those wrestling with, "is my comic a comic or not?” Check this out!
The Small Project BEFORE The Project
For anyone working on what feels like (or is) a "big idea" and not knowing how to start. OFTEN, a creator will make a small piece, either to get moving, or not realizing it is about to become a bigger thing. This is great, and it's encouraged! See more.
What's Happening at SAW!
Check out what’s been going on at SAW recently! End of the 2020-2021 Year Long Program, Pro-Call Information, Friday Night Comics Reading, and more!
Make a Basic Outline
Do you struggle making a plan for yourself? Try making your OUTLINE. It can be as basic and rough as you’d like, just as long as you START IT!
Layne Glasgow and the Artistic Process
An insight on the Artistic Process from Student and Graphic Novelist, Layne Glasgow.
The Importance of Making Your Work Physical
Wise words by Mentor, Elise Dietrich, in our Year-Long Intensive Program about the importance of making your work physical!
Updates from SAW! Anthologies, Comic Readings, and Saturday Cartoons!
Check out what we’ve all been up to the last few weeks with the SAW gang, SAW courses, and the Mighty Network groups! Updates from SAW! Anthologies, Comic Readings, and Saturday Cartoons!
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, Comic Finals, Expanding Ideas, and more!
BELIEVER MAG FRIDAY NIGHT WORKSHOP WITH LEELA CORMAN
SAW Co-Founder, Leela Corman, taught a Believer Mag Friday Night Workshop last week! Here are a few comic examples from students who participated in her workshop! It is also confirmed that Leela will be teaching another SAW course in 2021!
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! Instructor News, February Guest Artist, Final Assignments, Draw Jam info, and more!
SAW WRAP-UP!
Come check out what we’ve all been up to at SAW the last few weeks in the Year-Long Program, Storytelling Flow course, Mighty Network, and more!
What's happening at SAW?!
Fortnightly Wrap-up post of what’s been going on at SAW! We MOVED, Year-Long Students are now in their 3rd session, new course, virtual draw jams, and more!
We Love to Talk Comics!
Even though 2020 has been a whirlpool; landslide; and train wreck all at once, we’re still trying our best to make online learning as interactive as possible.
Once a month, we try to get a guest speaker in to talk comics, publishing, and whatever other professional insight they have about the comic world.
The last few months, students in our exclusive Mighty Network groups had access to Pro-Calls via Zoom with some awesome guest speakers. This year, we were fortunate enough to get these guest speakers!
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!