I keep getting flashes (re-runs?) in my head from that cartoon from my childhood Super Friends ... "Wonder Twin Power - ACTIVATE!" (she says): "Form of... an eagle!" (he says): "Form of... a bucket of water!" Seriously? You can turn into anything, ANYTHING, just by touching two rings together. And...
The >Sigh< is because today was the last day of my comic adventure. But it was a great way to end it. Marek Bennett spoke for most of the day with a presentation after lunch by Cara Bean. Marek had been tutoring my son in Spanish for years so I know how multi-talented...
We finally got to hold our comics in our hot little hands! To recap - yesterday, we had two hours to draw our page and ink it. We went from brainstorming the story, characters, etc. right through to silkscreening and assemble... in one day. Phew. Today we did a critique of the pages. Here'...
If there were an AP test for Comic Book Design... today would have been that exam. We spent the morning learning the Old School (photocopies) and the New School (InDesign and Photoshop) methods of creating the actual, printed and bound, comic books. Then, after lunch, we got really serious! We learned about World designing. We...
After hours and hours of drills and practice, I can now honestly say that I am definitely a brush person, and NOT a nib person. More on that in a bit... First, I want to show you the bathroom. I was really surprised that the walls of this school are so clean. And white. My...
The teachers here are either wind-up toys or highly caffeinated! They have so much energy and enthusiasm, even at 9:30 in the morning! Me, I'm exhausted just typing the exclamation marks! ;-) Seriously, they are great. Very dramatic and funny... hmmmm... just like cartoon characters? Today we started off with a very...
