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.