Скачать или смотреть Story +1 Comics with Marek Bennett - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop

Thanks for coming to the SAW Friday Night Workshops! We hope you have a good time enjoying some creative community and art-making.

Marek Bennett led us through a super useful exercise of getting our comics down quickly and adding +1—a new panel, a new page, a bigger area—to open up a space and expand our stories. Come try it yourself!

More from Marek:
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💬 Marek's advice for cartoonists:
(1) Start now—don’t wait!
(2) Create comfy! However feels most doable, energizing, natural, and clear.
(3) Keep it simple!

💬 PIE PROCESS: Pencil (then READ, LISTEN, FIX ), Ink, Erase (your pencil lines)

WARM-UP (3 min)
💬 Plan out a 3-4 step story (outline or thumbnails)
It could be a START MIDDLE END format (for example, condensing a movie or fairy tale) or a DIARY EVENT. Or a HOW TO. Or a favorite poem, song or joke etc.

💬 Now ADD +1 to your story!
You could...
Add a new panel.
Expand an area (like making one panel larger in size).
Add a second page.

Something to open up a space in your comic, perhaps making room for a new character or perspective.

💬 Rough out your comic (7 min)
Get whatever you can into each panel as an initial pass at the comic, even if it's a single word.
You don’t have to draw; you can just plan and write. Marek is having us work fast!

💬 Finish fleshing out your comic (6 min)
What's missing that has to be there?

When you're done, have someone read it back to you and see what you might need to change so it reads how you intended it. If you worked in pencil, go over your work in ink and erase the pencil lines.

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