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Comic Strip, Design

Comics workshop

I’ve been slowly working on my graphic novel story and comic strips over this year. My goal is to publish in 10 years – hopefully before my fingers lose their agility and my sight deteriorates.

As I went through the various phases of design, I got stuck in the craft so often that I realised I needed to invest some dedicated time to learn the skills.

So a few days ago I designed a Comics workshop for myself, and it was a blast! Learned a lot in the process too. My goal was to complete 5 strips of varied lengths, but I only reached 2. Still I have a list of ideas to work on further.

Meanwhile here’s what the workshop was like.

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art, Comic Strip, drawing, illustration, Life, sketchbook

The path to your artistic voice

Where does your artistic voice comes from? It’s your story – and your story could have anything, from memories, obstacles, truths and morals. It’s important to know yourself and listen to yourself – even though it hurts. And also, hours and hours of craft and expression so the craft becomes part of your body and your expression can break through. the journey to finding your voice comes with a lot of risks and failures – but trusting that you will always find the way to your voice.

These are the resources that I’ve found useful – The Artist’s Way, Find Your Artistic Voice (which I may be quoting above), and doing Lynda Barry’s exercises.

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