Jerzy Drozd

Teaching Artist and Cartoonist. He/him. When life is feeling heavy, I enjoy creating and sharing stories of cute heroes showing extraordinary courage.

Super Comics Challenge at CXC 2023 – Replay

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If you couldn’t make it to Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2023, you can check out all of the recordings of events as they post them to their YouTube Channel. Here is this year’s edition of the Super Comics Challenge game show, starring Raina Telgemeier, Coni Yovaniniz, and Rafael Rosado. Oh, and hosted by me!

Some highlights from the show:

Speaking of that, I have to share the drawings they all did of Martha Bee!

Rafael Rosado, who went for Heel points when drawing my beloved Martha Bee.
Raina Telgemeier, who went with the reference photo wherein Martha Bee was done with me.
And Coni’s drawing of the angelic (but not juicy) Martha Bee.
And some of the kids in the audience joined in to draw Martha Bee after the show! Thank you, Hank, I love this drawing.

I love leading this game show. Here’s hoping we get to do it again next year!

Back in 2020 I led a few virtual versions of Super Comics Challenge. You can watch them below:

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TPD 320 – Reactions/Community

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It’s time for another Art Soundoff entry! This time I’m thinking about my relationship with how I want an audience to react to my work.

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TPD 319 – Playing

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It’s another Art Soundoff Prompt: What are you Playing? Well, I’m not playing any video or board games, but I am being playful with my teaching!

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From Pixelfed: 2023-11-01T15:33:34.000Z

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This week in high school comics class: working on outlining and structuring our minicomic stories. The structure is there to support them when they’re stuck and for them to rebel against when they’re not.

P1: Introductions – We learn about the characters and setting

P2: Characters interact – We learn more about how the characters see themselves and each other, particularly through dialogue

P3: Conflict – Some kind of problem shows up

P4: Characters react to conflict – We learn more about the characters through their reaction to the conflict

P5: Twist – Some kind of surprise shows up–could be big, could be small

P6: Characters react to twist – We learn more about the characters through their reaction to the conflict

P7-P8: Resolution – I always think about this part as answering one of two questions: *How* is the world different, or *Why* is the world the same?

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TPD 318 – Challenges

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Today I do my best to remember what challenges felt like when I was in high school, and how my relationship with them has changed as I’ve aged.

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Buckeye Book Fair This Weekend!

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If you’re anywhere near NE Ohio this Saturday, November 4, I hope you’ll come out to the Buckeye Book Fair! I’ll be there with copies of Rockets, The Warren Commission Report, and Boulder and Fleet. And at 1pm I’ll be leading another drawing game show with fellow kidlit author/illustrator Merrill Rainey.

I’ll also be hiding some art drops around the conference. It’ll be a lot of fun!

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TPD 317 – Notebooks

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I’m following the prompts for Art Soundoff 2023, and today’s is Notebooks.

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Quick Flatting in Clip Studio Paint

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I’ve been teaching some of my high school students how to do color flats for comics, which reminded me of this mini-workshop episode of the Lean Into Art Cast where Rob Stenzinger and I looked at some ways one can speed up flatting in Clip Studio Paint.

I’ve been learning Procreate, and the drawing tools are excellent:

(yes, that’s Thirsty and the gang from this book)

But I haven’t yet found as many tools for efficient flatting as I’ve found in Clip Studio Paint. If anyone has any tips or resources for Procreate flatting, I’d love to hear about them!

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TPD 316 – Art Soundoff 2023: Introductions

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I’m back to doing Art Soundoff again, this time to follow along with my Interactive Media students. I try to model how I think about articulating what I’d like people to know about me.

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Before I record I try to draft a few thoughts on a piece of scrap paper. Here are the notes I took just before recording this episode.

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