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
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Author: 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.
Art Drops at the Buckeye Book Fair!
If you’re at the Buckeye Book Fair this Saturday, November 4, be sure to keep an eye open for some Doctor Baer art drops I’m leaving around the convention center. Like this one, which is also a sneak peek at
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TPD 318 – Challenges
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. https://jdrozd.com/wp-content/audio/TPD318.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | Download
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Buckeye Book Fair This Weekend!
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
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TPD 317 – Notebooks
I’m following the prompts for Art Soundoff 2023, and today’s is Notebooks. Here are the notes I took just before recording: Links mentioned in this episode: https://jdrozd.com/wp-content/audio/TPD317.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | Download
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Quick Flatting in Clip Studio Paint
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
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TPD 316 – Art Soundoff 2023: Introductions
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. Before I record I try to
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Just Make Marks and Respond to Them
Years ago I was leading a comics workshop at A2 Inkubate (a pre-conference for the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival). I joined the participants in the hands-on activity where we all made zine-style minicomics. Minutes passed and everyone was drawing
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Gerimi Drawing Comics 073 :My Top 10 tools for drawing comics
If you enjoy these videos PLEASE SHARE them. Visit my resources page for FREE creativity tools and comic books, including a handy-dandy downloadable cheat sheet of this list. – http://resources.gerimi.net My Top 10 tools for drawing comics 1. Ticonderoga HB
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❤️Spidey Beat Up Iron Man 2020 & That’s Why I Love Him❤️
I’m not sure when I got The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #20. I think it might have been Christmas of 1990. My parents, resigned to the fact that I was hopelessly in love with comic books (especially Spider-Man), got me a
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