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Copyright (C) Pei Ling 2013
Copyright (C) Huda 2013
Copyright (C) Ramdhan 2013
Copyright (C) Ong Chin Hao 2013
Copyright (C) Lee Jun Hao 2013
These comics were done by students at my Rediscover Cartoon and Comics Making workshop at ITE College West sometime in March 2013. It was a five sessions workshop, lasting two hours per session.The students were taught the basis of cartoon drawing (learning both the cartoon and manga style of drawing), character creation to storyboard planning and comics page layout.
Through years of teaching cartooning and fine art (children/youth art), I realised that drawing cartoon can be more challenging for some students compare to drawing or painting an artwork, moreover doing a comics strip/story. Comics are a result of drawing (characters, props, background etc.) and writing (story crafting). You need both to communicate an idea, a joke or a story. Despite the fact that one can get away with writing when you can produce good and clear drawing in comics, it won't be the other way around (just words) because the uniqueness of comics is the marriage of image and text. Comics will become a powerful medium when it draws out the emotion of readers and mesmerising them in a whirl pool of sensation.
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