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illustration in three panels of a man in three frames walking speaking and working

Sep 26 - Dec 5

$525

If you would like more information about this or any other course offerings, please contact a SVACE Course Advisor at:

ce@sva.edu

Location

Online

Faculty

Carl Potts,

Creative director, visual artist, writer, editor

This course is designed for people who want to create comics about an idea they have been mulling over, or have already written, or wish to otherwise develop from a script to thumbnails to finished comics-art pages. In the first session there is a quick review of the fundamental principles and techniques of cartooning that will benefit creators of all experience levels. Areas of cartooning craft and writing to be covered include page and panel composition, sequential visual storytelling, drawing and inking skills. Starting with the second weekly session, students present two comics pages. One page is the rough layout for the next page in their story. The rough layouts are critiqued by the instructor and the class. The second page is the finished line art for a page that had been shown and critiqued as a rough layout in the previous class. This process runs through to the end of the semester. At the end of the course students will self-publish (and we will critique) a finished 10+-page comic as a "minicomic" that can be used to promote the work to publishers, other creators and at comic conventions.
NOTE: Students who work with traditional tools (pencil and ink on paper) will need a scanner to turn their work into JPG or PDF files. All students with an active registration in this course will be given free access to the Adobe Creative Cloud. This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.

Course Number

CIC-2773-OL

Credits

3.5 CEUs

Technical Requirements

The School of Visual Arts online courses are hosted in Canvas, our College-wide learning system. Most computers (5 years old or newer recommended) can access the course(s) without a problem. The courses work with Windows (Windows 7 and newer), Macintosh (Mac OSX 10.10 and newer), and Linux (chromeOS). Participants will need a minimum screen size of 800x600 (the average size of a netbook) and good broadband (Minimum of 512kbps) Internet connection to participate in the online courses.
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