ITE College West: Student's comics

           Copyright (C) Mohammad Hirzi Bin Chahrul 2013

                                         
               Copyright (C) Pei Ling 2013

              Copyright (C) Huda 2013

         Copyright (C) Ramdhan 2013

        Copyright (C) Terence Koh Wei Jun 2013

        Copyright (C) Ong Chin Hao 2013

           Copyright (C) Lee Jun Hao 2013

      Copyright (C) Zareen 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.

Van Gogh's painting expressed through the eyes of young artists

 

 

 

The original painting done by Van Gogh.

 

 

This painting above was done by a student from Katong School and those below are by students from Max Tuition Centre. The differences between these two set of artworks is how they do it. The student who did the above painting were shown a coloured plate of the original Van Gogh painting while those students who did the painting below only got to see a monochrome copy of the painting. The children have to fill in the colour through imagination or what they knew about Van Gogh.

Painting class @ Katong School's art club

How a child view his/her surrounding is often expressed in a very different angle as compare to adults viewing the same scene. The richness of colours; the simplicity in shapes; the directness of one's emotion is often the key to responsive abstract painting.

Teacher's Workshop @ Katong School

This was the second time I conducted teacher's training in Katong School and the results were fantastic artworks done by the teachers within the three hour period!

Cartooning Tip-Bits: Completed Comic Page

Computones are added using Photoshop which contributed to the final outcome of my comic page!

Cartooning Tip-Bits: Comic Page working in progress

 Stage Three. Outline your drawing in detail. Wait till your ink is dry before erasing off the pencil  marks. You may also erase digitally using Photoshop which I did here.

Stage Two. Pencil down your drawing. You may want to use a light blue pencil to draw if you do not
wish to erase heavily after inking. Try to draw (extend) the image outside the panel so that you see a fuller view of your character.

Stage One. It is always a good habit to start off with a draft. This is to pencil down your thought so that you know what to expect in your comic page.

Cartooning Tip-Bits: Drawing Material

What you see here are "old school" stuffs. Yes I mean the pen, ink and ruler which nowadays may no longer be that important as compare to those days where having a computer for rendering is a previlege. However one still need to "draw" even though you are using the digital platform and most of the comics software still imitate the touch and feel of a G-pen or so. For me, I am still amazed by the flow of ink from a pen and how it transformed into a nice drawing.