Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Audio journals on making and teaching comics.
I did a little sketch to support a friend’s project today. Upon reflection, I realized that advocating for projects I believe in is hard-wired into who I am, and in this Thunder Punch Daily I explore why that might be.
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This time I respond to an Art SoundOff entry by Owen Jollands, who submitted some thoughts on how we might apply more scientific thinking to our art analysis. Having no scientific background of my own, I share how teaching comics
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It’s dawned on me that I haven’t done any proper “art journaling” for this Art Soundoff challenge, so I take a break from my essays to share and reflect on some of the things I’m working on today. Links mentioned:
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This time I share a few thoughts on the experiment I’m running with the Boulder and Fleet webcomic. I’m posting the comic natively to several different channels and observing different results from each of them. Tapastic, in particular, has presented
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After going through my weekly ritual of digitally gathering inspiration reference materials (in prep for this week’s LIA Cast), I realized that I haven’t quite solved the problem of cataloging and reviewing digital reference files. Today’s TPD is comparing the
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I’ve been shifting gears a lot today and facing the challenge of keeping focus. So I share a few of my thoughts on how I try to stay focused and get through my to-do lists. Links mentioned: The Art Soundoff
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This time I share the surprise I’ve felt in how relaxed I’ve been about the Boulder and Fleet webcomic. Surprise invites the question “why,” so I explore what is different between this webcomic and others I’ve run, which leads me
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Thunder Punch Daily is back for a month of daily updates! Why? Because Rob Stenzinger and I have launched a creative challenge for the month of November, that’s why! In this episode I talk about my experiences with Inktober, the
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For the 150th episode I break format and answer an email rather than come in with a formulated essay on comic-making. But I think there’s an essay in there somewhere as I give a report on what tools I use
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Today I explain my thinking process behind the design of He-Man in that big Masters of the Universe pitch I recently put together, and use it as a modeling exercise to highlight the various elements of communication in character design.
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