#fridaynightcomics

[alunclewe]

So I just said in my previous post I was going to try to post more, so let me start that out by belatedly posting the comic I did for the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this past Friday.

The workshop was hosted this time by @mikedawwwson, and the assignment was simple: Just draw a four-panel comic about something that happened in your life. Although honestly in retrospect I'm not sure I totally followed the intended instructions, because when he showed examples he made a big point of pointing out the importance of the facial expressions, and the way I framed this comic my face is never fully shown. Oops. Oh well.

[meditationfunnies]

My first color comic basically ever*. Inspired by Chelsea Akpan (who's a good teacher!) at Friday Night Comics with @sequentialartistsworkshop

*Seriously, I havnt fuxxed with color since I was a kid. My work is made for the copy machine. Color copies used to be silly expensive. I got used to black & white, and I never bothered to figure out how to use color effectively. That's why @thankscocoa's presentation was tailor made for me.

[maxfractal]

New thing (but has a lot of the old thing in there.) , , , , , #podscape #comics #ink #inkdrawing #webcomics #fridaynightcomics #friday https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqd1CL_vKWQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[crisisoninfinitenerds]

Another workshop with S.A.W., another weird little kid adventure… #fridaynightcomics #lateinlifecartoonist https://www.instagram.com/p/CeFO0XetBfS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[artlung]

Attended a comics workshop on zoom given by @believermag & @tilliewalden who is clearly an extraordinary teacher. #FridayNightComics (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPb4ZiWD8WP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lisaonsocial]

My older daughter and I decided to attend @believermag’s workshop by @by_teresawong. I realized that I have a very bad memory for what actually happens in movies. I kept asking my daughter to recall the various scenes from Harry Potter. She chose the festive favourite Home Alone. #movies #comics #workshop #fridaynightcomics #lisaonsocial 🎥 🍿 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDzihJBLHh/?igshid=1m7gkai3zpozd

[alunclewe]

Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop this week, because I'm working this afternoon. (Well... there's a slight possibility I may be able to make it if it turns out to be a very short workday. But it's unlikely.) But I did attend the workshop last week, and, uh, didn't get around to posting my comic until now.

Last week's workshop was hosted by Anand Shenoy (@anandpagalkutta on Instagram), and the theme was "aimless comics", basically just start with a grid of 2x4 panels and... draw a kind of an aimless story, without worrying about where it's going. The only further restriction was that there should be at least two panels with dialogue.

Anyway, when not given specific direction I guess my default tends toward drawing monsters, so here's what I ended up with.

[alunclewe]

I once again participated in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop, this time hosted by Katharine Woodman-Maynard (@woodmanmaynard on Instagram). The project for this week's workshop was to create a four-panel comic about a holiday (or a diary comic, if you were having trouble of thinking of anything related to a holiday), but either with some pattern between panels, or centered around some visual motif.

I ended up sort of combining two holidays...

[alunclewe]

Okay, I'm going to really make an effort to get some Art Fight revenge attacks up tomorrow, but in the meantime I'll try to get a little more caught up with the comics from past @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshops that I haven't uploaded yet.

So here's the comic from the May 12 workshop, hosted this time by David Lasky (www.laskycomics.com). The project this time was for participants to draw a comic incorporating a haiku about some recent small event in their life. (Well, a "haiku" in terms of syllable count; it didn't have to be about nature or include a seasonal reference like a traditional Japanese haiku.) So, here's what I ended up with.

[alunclewe]

So, I participated in the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop again today—actually, I still have some comics from previous weeks I haven't posted which I really ought to get to, but at least I'll get this one up so I don't fall further behind.

The project for today's workshop, hosted this week by Ellen O'Grady (@ellenogradyart on Instagram) was to make four cards that represented different aspects of yourself—positive and negative—through mythological or archetypal figures. First, participants answered four questions to guide their thinking of what aspects to represent. I'm heavily paraphrasing, but I think the questions were more or less as follows: 1. If someone who knew you well were to introduce you to a community intended to make the world a better place, what positive quality of yours would they name? 2. What other quality would you like to bring to the community? 3. What quality might interfere with your contribution to the community? 4. What is something you would do if you could do it with no societal disapproval?

Anyway, I wasn't completely sure of the distinction between #1 and #2, so the first two panels are just more or less positive qualities. The first panel, representing my drive to create things, is the Demiurge, which was sometimes represented as a snake with a lion's head. (Of course, in Gnostic philosophy, the Demiurge wasn't exactly a positive figure, so I guess maybe there's a bit of self-deprecation going on here.) The second panel represents the fact that I like to share knowledge, I guess? I mean, I work as a teacher (well, currently as a studio teacher most of my actual worktime is taken up just keeping an eye on things and making sure the minor on set is being treated well rather than actual teaching, but I'm still nominally a teacher), but I also like sharing knowledge through other means that are less direct and obvious, so I went with Mimir, a figure from Norse mythology who advised Odin; after Mimir was beheaded in a war, Odin continued to carry around Mimir's severed head, which continued to surreptitiously counsel him.

Panel three is the negative aspect, the poor time management that prevents me from getting anything done—and which I'm pretty sure is because I have ADHD. (I haven't been formally diagnosed, but the descriptions and diagnostic criteria I've read seem to be a really good fit.) I tried to think of any mythological figures who tried to do too much and didn't get much done or who otherwise showed symptoms of ADHD, and then I finally decided to go with the Tumblr-famous ADHD creature, BTW, bending perhaps the definition of mythological or archetypal a bit, but what the hey.

And finally panel four... well, despite my reliance on technology and constant computer use, I guess there's a part of me that wants to just... have nothing, and be part of nature. So I thought of the näcken, a figure from Swedish mythology who (at least according to some versions) just sits naked in rivers and waterfalls and plays the violin. (Okay, the violin isn't exactly natural, and I don't play the violin (I did take violin lessons as a young child, but that was a long time ago), but I could chalk it down to just representing the production of art in a natural setting or something.)

So yeah, I don't know if these were the best choices I could have made for these representations, but the time was limited for the workshop, so I went with whatever I came up with in the time.

(Why did I write "The Näcken" but just "Demiurge" without the article? For no good reason; I just didn't notice the inconsistency until it was finished.)

Anyway, I'll try to finally get some of the past Friday Night Comics workshop comics up within the next few days. I also was planning on participating in Art Fight again this year, but I went to sign in and the site seems to be down? Hopefully it'll be back up tomorrow...

[alunclewe]

Just participated again in the @sequentialartistsworkshop free online Friday Night Workshop, hosted this week by @annasellheim.  The focus for today’s workshop was on expressive characters, and the task was to draw a character monologuing for at least three panels, at least one of which was a full body shot.  So... here’s what I drew.

[alunclewe]

So after not posting any art (or anything else) all month, I’ll make two posts today!  Neither of which involves art actually drawn today!

The pictures above were drawn at @sequentialartistsworkshop’s free online Friday Night Comics Workshop, hosted this time by Tom Motley ( @cartooniologist).  Basically, for the first page, we had five minutes to draw a character whose face was based on a squiggle, then five minutes to draw a second character whose body was based on a squiggle, then five minutes to draw a background and add dialogue.  (I did not know this third bit was coming, or I would have left more room for the dialogue.)  Then we had... I forget, another five minutes I think? to draw a second page that followed from the first.

So, I wouldn’t call this one of my finest works, but the squiggle shape did lead to me to draw a more exaggeratedly cartoony character than I’d normally draw.

[alunclewe]

For the first time in a month and a half, I actually had a Friday evening off and was able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop. (There are still two past workshops I haven't uploaded my comics from, and I do intend to get to them (and should have done so much earlier) but, uh, I may as well put up today's comic now so I don't fall further behind.)

The host this time was Marek Bennett (@marekbennett on Instagram), and the project was to create an eight-page comic about a journey. (There was a little more structure than that, but I don't think it's worth my going through all the details here; you can find the workshop on YouTube if you want to see the whole thing.)

I know I keep saying this, but I really have to start posting here more often... sorry...

[alunclewe]

Aargh I have been busy with work and haven't been able to attend the @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshops for a while, but I still have some comics from old workshops I haven't posted yet, so… I'll post one of them now. (I also have other art I haven't posted yet, but I want to get caught up with the Friday Night Comics comics first.)

These pages are from the June 28 workshop, which was hosted by Robert James Russell (@robhollywood on Instagram). The first part of the assignment was to draw yourself as three birds that in some way reflect your personality. So I chose first a woodpecker, because I have a tendency to (figuratively) beat my head against things (and also this species of woodpecker was named after someone with my surname, though that's not really a personality thing), and a kakapo because they're awkward flightless birds and I often feel like I'm awkward and have trouble doing anything, and a weaver bird because they're known for creating elaborate nests so it reflects my desire to create things.

Then we were asked to draw a comic featuring one of the three bird characters from the previous page interacting with its surroundings or other characters in a way that reflects its traits and personality.

Okay, just two more old Friday Night Comics left to post, and then I'll be caught up and start posting other things… and of course I want to start posting more often in general…

[alunclewe]

Yikes I have still not been great about posting here (I have had a busy workweek), but anyway here's the most recent @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop comic I hadn't already posted, which was from 6/21.

The workshop that week was hosted by Haleigh Buck (whose Instagram page appears to no longer exist, so I don't know where or if they have a current online presence?), and the task was first to fill a page with random shapes, then to turn those shapes into objects or characters, and then to pick one of those characters and draw a four-panel comic about them.

[alunclewe]

So, as I continue to try to catch up with all the old @sequentialartistsworkshop Friday Night Comics workshop comics I haven't put online yet, here's the one from June 7.

The workshop that week was hosted by Andrew Kozlowski (@andrew.kozlowski on Instagram), and the "assignment" was as follows: First, think of some annoying interaction that we'd had with someone else, and then draw ourselves and the "villain" of the interaction. (In this case, the interaction was with a telemarketer, and I obviously didn't know what they looked like, so I drew them as a monster because why not.) Then, draw a six-panel comic about the interaction, with, in each row, one panel of text and one of an image. The first row was about some past event leading up to the interaction in question, the second row was the interaction itself, and the third its aftermath. Finally, we did a similar six-panel comic, but this time from the "villain"'s point of view, attempting to see their side of things.

Anyway, I'll start posting other things once I've posted all the old Friday Night Comics comics, but I still have a backlog of... let's see... four more comics to get through. Oh, that's not that many, I guess.