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 a note of the dates!

Week 1 – Monday 29th April – Creating Cartoon Creatures… and bringing them to life, using classic animal characters as our inspiration!
—please note—no workshop on 6th May due to Bank Holiday!
Week 2 – 13th May – Classic characters – Learn design and stylistic tricks used by the greats! World-famous cartoon characters! This time: Beanomania!
Week 3 – 20th May – Faces and Expressive anatomy, making moods and wacky faces! Showing feeling through pose! Next level upgrade awesome lettering skills!

Week 4 – 3rd June – 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, and a look at Wally Wood’s ’22 panels that always work’!
Week 5 – 10th June – Monster mash-up!
Week 6 – 17th June- Comic Club Spooktacular!
Week 7 – 24th June – Skateboard / T-Shirt / trainers / hoodies / mug designing!
Week 8 – 1st July – Fairy tale characters in cartoon style!
Week 9 – 8th July – Mythical Creatures from ancient imaginations!
Week 10 – 15th July – 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!

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, during this course some sessions will explore manga and create artwork themed to different genres, we’ll be learning about Yokai (magical mythical creatures), Isekai (transported to magical worlds), Mecha (giant robots!), and Cookery Manga!

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!

Workshops will be finalised nearer to the time, and are often be influenced by the requests and interests of the young artists… but this should give you an idea of how things might run:

Week 1 – Wednesday 1st May – Kawaii Klassiks – adorable anthropomorphic cuteness culture explored!
Week 2 – 8th May – Chibis forever, classic characters, as requested by the young people! (super-cute character creation)
Week 3 – 15th May – Manga explorers – creating artworks linked to a genre! Isekai!
Week 4 – 22nd May – Yokai! We’ll be drawing mysterious Japanese folk creatures, and learning about their strange histories!

Week 5 – 5th June – Manga explorers – creating artwork linked to a genre! Mecha!
Week 6 – 12th June – More realistic manga character (dynamic upgrades for realistically-proportioned figure drawing and character design tricks)
Week 7 – 19th June – Hair, eyes, hands…. tricky tips and unbeatable upgrades!
Week 8 – 26th June – Classic characters, as requested by the young people!
Week 9 – 3rd July – Studio Ghibli Special part 1!
Week 10 – 10th July – 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.