Join bestselling cartoonist and super-experienced tutor James Parsons on Zoom for a 10 week course in the popular manga/anime style of comic art. Every Wednesday at 930am, I’ll be guiding you through all the essential tricks required to create amazing manga artwork – from kawaii and chibis to classic characters, and more realistically proportioned figures. If you attended the previous manga course this will be entirely fresh perspectives and workshops! Some sessions will explore manga and create artwork themed to different genres, so we’ll be learning about Yokai (magical mythical creatures), Isekai (transported to magical worlds), Mecha (giant robots), or Cookery Manga for example! Other sessions will look at expressive poses and character drawing/design, often using fan favourites of the particpants!

Perfect for 8 years to teenage – grown-ups are welcome to accompany younger kids.

Printable worksheets reinforcing the topics covered and providing super-fun drawing practice will be provided with zoom codes for each session. All you need is a pencil, paper, optional black outliner and colours, and plenty of imagination!

Workshop content will be devised nearer to the time, and is often be influenced by the requests and interests of the young artists… but this hypothetical course structure should give you an idea of how things might run. Please take note of the dates n times of the workshops, the mid-course break, and no workshop on 5th March due to World Book Day Week (Comic Club is always fully booked by schools this week).

Week 1 – Wednesday 8th January – Kawaii Klassiks – adorable anthropomorphic cuteness culture explored!
Week 2 – 15th January – Chibis forever, classic characters, as requested by the young people! (super-cute character creation)
Week 3 – 22nd January – Manga explorers – creating artworks linked to a genre! Isekai!
Week 4 – 29th January – Yokai! We’ll be drawing mysterious Japanese folk creatures, and learning about their strange histories!
Week 5 – 5th February – Manga explorers – creating artwork linked to a genre! Mecha!
Week 6 -12th February – More realistic manga character (dynamic upgrades for realistically-proportioned figure drawing and character design tricks)

MID-COURSE BREAK!

Week 7 – 26th February – Hair, eyes, hands…. tricky tips and unbeatable upgrades!

***NO WORKSHOP ON 5TH MARCH DUE TO WORLD BOOK DAY WEEK!***

Week 8 – 12th March – Classic characters, as requested by the young people!
Week 9 – 19th March – Studio Ghibli Special!
Week 10 – 26th March – Kaiju! Giant monster attack awesomeness!!!

£35 for the 10 week course, payable in advance. Please email info@crazycomicclub.co.uk if you have any questions!

Join bestselling cartoonist and super-experienced tutor James on Zoom for another awesome 10 week course in comic art! Each Thursday at 10am, I’ll be guiding you through all the essential tricks required to create amazing comics: Storytelling techniques, character design, sequencing, movement, setting, mood, speech, sound, lettering, costume, clarity of communication, and more! High energy fun and creativity is guaranteed!

If you attended the previous comic courses – these workshops will be totally fresh! Where we cover similar territory as before it will be with a completely different approach… For example, a different set of faces/expressions and moods… or a different set of dynamic expressive poses, exploring a different front cover composition, a different kind of comic strip story with a different ‘classic’ narrative type etc! The spectrum of drawing and storytelling skills of the young artists will be infinitely broadened to the farthest limits of the imagination!!!

This is an example course structure to give an idea of how things run, but will change according to the whim’s of the artists’ imaginations! Please take note of the dates n times of the workshops, the mid-course break, and no workshop on 6th March due to World Book Day Week (Comic Club is always fully booked by schools this week).

Week 1 – Thursday 9th January – Creating Cartoon Creatures… and bringing them to life, using classic animal characters as our inspiration!
Week 2 – 16th January – Classic characters – Learn design and stylistic tricks used by the greats! World-famous cartoon characters! This time: Beanomania!
Week 3 – 23rd January – Faces and Expressive anatomy, making moods and wacky faces! Showing feeling through pose! Next level upgrade awesome lettering skills!
Week 4 – 30th January – Tricks for Storytelling! Ace ways to make your comic POP! Exploring different kinds of panel design (the little boxes that make up comics) to boost your storytelling skills!
Week 5 – 6th February – Monster mash-up!
Week 6 – 13th February – Comic Club Spooktacular!

MID-COURSE BREAK!

Week 7 – 27th February – Skateboard / T-Shirt / trainers / hoodies / mug designing!

***NO WORKSHOP ON 6TH MARCH DUE TO WORLD BOOK DAY WEEK!***

Week 8 – 13th March- Fairy tale characters in cartoon style!
Week 9 – 20th March – Mythical Creatures from ancient times!
Week 10 – 27th March – Comic Strip creation!

Perfect for 7 – 13 year olds and beyond – grown-ups may wish to accompany younger kids – I adapt the session towards the needs of participants.

Bespoke printable worksheets reinforcing the topics covered, or providing super-fun drawing practice will be provided with Zoom Codes for each session. All you need is a pencil, paper, optional black outliner, and plenty of imagination!

£35 for the for the 10 week course payable on booking. Please email info@crazycomicclub.co.uk if you have any questions… thanks!

Join bestselling cartoonist and super-experienced tutor James on Zoom for another awesome comic art and illustration course! Each Monday at 930am, I’ll be guiding you through all the essential tricks required to create amazing comics: Storytelling techniques, character design, sequencing, movement, setting, mood, speech, sound, lettering, costume, clarity of communication, and more! High energy fun and creativity is guaranteed!

If you attended the previous comic courses – these workshops will be totally fresh! Where we cover similar territory as before it will be with a completely different approach… For example, a different set of faces/expressions and moods… or a different set of dynamic expressive poses, exploring a different front cover composition, a different kind of comic strip story with a different ‘classic’ narrative type etc! The spectrum of drawing and storytelling skills of the young artists will be infinitely broadened to the farthest limits of the imagination!!!

This is an example course structure to give an idea of how things run, but will change according to the whim’s of the artists’ imaginations! Please take note of the dates n times of the workshops, the mid-course break, and no workshop on 3rd March due to World Book Day Week (Comic Club is always fully booked by schools this week).

Week 1 – Monday 13th January – Creating Cartoon Creatures… and bringing them to life, using classic animal characters as our inspiration!
Week 2 – 20th January – Classic characters – Learn design and stylistic tricks used by the greats! World-famous cartoon characters! This time: Beanomania!
Week 3 – 27th January – Faces and Expressive anatomy, making moods and wacky faces! Showing feeling through pose! Next level upgrade awesome lettering skills!
Week 4 – 3rd February – Tricks for Storytelling! Ace ways to make your comic POP! Exploring different kinds of panel design (the little boxes that make up comics)
Week 5 – 10th February – Monster mash-up!

MID-COURSE BREAK!

Week 6 – 24th February – Comic Club Spooktacular!

***NO WORKSHOP ON 3rd MARCH MARCH DUE TO WORLD BOOK DAY WEEK!***

Week 7 – 10th March – Skateboard / T-Shirt / trainers / hoodies / mug designing!
Week 8 – 17th March – Fairy tale characters in cartoon style!
Week 9 – 24th March – Mythical Creatures from ancient imaginations!
Week 10 – 31st March – Comic Strip creation!

Perfect for 7 – 13 year olds and beyond – grown-ups may wish to accompany younger kids – I adapt the session towards the needs of participants.

Printable worksheets reinforcing the topics covered, or providing super-fun drawing practice will be provided with Zoom Codes for each session. All you need is a pencil, paper, optional black outliner, and plenty of imagination!

£35 for the for the 10 week course, payable on booking.

Please email info@crazycomicclub.co.uk if you have any questions… thanks!