ONLINE After school Manga, Anime & Cartooning for Teens

Meets ONLINE Mondays @ 4:45pm-6:45pm (NY/ Standard Eastern Time) via Zoom

Suitable for Teens 9-16 yrs

Teens get an inside look into the exciting world of Anime, Manga & Cartoon Drawing in this full class course. Design your own characters & storylines & learn amazing drawing techniques. Students work on preliminary drawing exercises, learning how to capture the fundamentals of facial features & anatomy within the Manga, Anime Art tradition culminating in designing your own manga character.Student assignments will include - Figure drawing in one of the various styles of: Shonen, Seinen, Shojo, Josei or Kodomomuke. We will work on line drawing vs. value and have a Demo in: shading with manga markers. Learn figure drawing, proportion & inking. The second half of the course we will introduce the technique of storyboarding - Incorporating narrative based on panel-to-panel storytelling, costume & character design. The course will end with a critique on each student’s work. Drawing experience is useful for this course but not essential.

Full Class course is advised to learn this skill

Art supplies are NOT included in your online class fee.

PLEASE NOTE While we do offer individual class sign up options in this course, it is primarily for those with tricky schedules or those who want to choose their own calendar dates or who have missed the start of the course. We strongly encourage everyone to sign up for a full class course. It is the only way to learn skills in this media. Please note if you are signing up for one individual class, this will only serve as a taster session for this particular media, it is not possible to learn a craft in two hours or to progress. Please be patient and manage your expectations, you may not finish your project in one lesson, creativity takes time.

Students are required to download the (free) Zoom App before class time. After your register we will supply you with a link to join the class on your App