Workshop one, New Continental, Preston - DONE!!!

Well, first of all thanks very much to everyone who came along to the first workshop session. I had a great time and was glad for a glimpse inside all of the participants heads (turns out it's all aliens in underpants, some kind of superhero who lives in a rubbish dump with a bin bag for a cape, a superheroine who rides around on a bee... stuff like that) Time disappeared sooner than we thought so we'll be picking up next week where we left off with some character design and some tips on drawing before we get everyones comics down on paper.

What we did have time for though, was a discussion about what makes a comic a comic. To find this out, we had a big pile of comics and the group looked very closely at the pages and we made a list of what they saw.

We boiled it down into a few essential items; including panels, speech bubbles, sound effects, characters and of course; the all important story. We then collectively came up with an idea for a character and had a 3-way comic jam (where everyone drew a panel of a four panel strip, then passed it on to the next person..and so on)

Here are a few pictures from the day as well as our character designs for "Stinky Sid" and some of the comic strips I managed to grab at the end of the workshop.

Looking forward to next weeks workshop now!

Note: If you're around in Preston next Saturday at 12.00, drop the New Continental an email and come along, everyone welcome!