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Cartooning Basics

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2011-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

This course will explore the essential mechanics of cartooning, focusing on the art of composition, cartoon figure drawing in black-and-white, graphic storytelling and creative games. This kind of training is helpful for anyone interested in comics, animation, or advertising. NOTE: Please bring plain white paper, a mechanical pencil, a kneaded eraser and two black Sharpie markers (fine and ultrafine) to the first session.

Instructor

Tom Motley

Cartoonist

Education:

BFA, Washington University

Books include:

The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, The Twilight of the Bums

Publications include:

Nickelodeon magazine, Steel Pulse Pro-Wrestling Adventures, True Fiction, Brooklyn Rail, Eros Comix, The Stranger

Clients include:

Art Students League of Denver, Abrons Arts Center, La Leche League, National Endowment for Financial Education, Merrill Corporation, Rain Taxi, Mizel Arts and Culture Center

Exhibitions include:

Singer Gallery, Denver; Glovinsky Gallery of Contemporary Art, Denver

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Intuitive Perspective

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2068-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

This course will focus on creating a sense of form within space on flat drawing and painting surfaces, without worrying about vanishing points or the measuring of space. We'll try to internalize the concepts of line (various types and weights), shape (positive and negative), edges (soft, hard, merging), value (range of lightness and darkness), color (and its elements of value and "temperature"), form and space. Topics will also include asymmetry vs. symmetry; overlap of shapes and forms; fragmenting of shapes within form; convergence of lines, shapes and forms, and clustering forms. We'll study montage and how to work with and from photographs. Human figures within their environments will be the basis of all lectures, demonstrations, exercises and home assignments.
NOTE: Please bring a "Biggie" sketchpad (14x17"), a tracing paper pad (9x12"), pencils and a kneaded eraser.

Instructor

Sal Amendola

Illustrator; writer; founder, SRV + 1. Formerly, editor, talent coordinator, illustrator, DC Comics; associate editor, Marvel Comics; illustrator, Archie Comics

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author:

Perspective for the Artist; Other Intelligences: A Sociopolitical View

Clients include:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.; PBS; McGraw-Hill; Little, Brown and Company; Maury Povich Show; Homeworld Press

Books illustrated include:

Witnessed; Batman: Black Egg of Atlantis; Left at East Gate; Streetwise; Pack of Trouble; Illustrated Comic Art Workshop, vol. I; Draw Comics with Dick Giordano; Tarzan of the Apes; Return of Tarzan

Publications include:

National Lampoon, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

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Drawing and Perspective

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2072-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

This course will take you from the basic principles of one-, two- and three-point perspective through placing figures in proper relationship within your picture, inclined planes, placing a specific number of windows in specific places on skyscrapers, spiral staircases, reflections in mirrors and wet pavement, to so-called "aerial perspective" (using value and color relationships to create the sense of form in space), and more. If you are in animation or cartooning, understanding these principles is a necessity. If you are in the fine arts or illustration, it will save you several years of compromising your visuals because you couldn't grasp how to make a figure look like it's "over here next to these buildings" while making others look like they're "over there in front of those mountains." Assignments are designed to prove the practical applications of the basic principles of perspective.

Instructor

Sal Amendola

Illustrator; writer; founder, SRV + 1. Formerly, editor, talent coordinator, illustrator, DC Comics; associate editor, Marvel Comics; illustrator, Archie Comics

Education:

BFA, MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author:

Perspective for the Artist; Other Intelligences: A Sociopolitical View

Clients include:

Simon & Schuster, Inc.; PBS; McGraw-Hill; Little, Brown and Company; Maury Povich Show; Homeworld Press

Books illustrated include:

Witnessed; Batman: Black Egg of Atlantis; Left at East Gate; Streetwise; Pack of Trouble; Illustrated Comic Art Workshop, vol. I; Draw Comics with Dick Giordano; Tarzan of the Apes; Return of Tarzan

Publications include:

National Lampoon, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

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Figure Drawing for Graphic Novelists

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2218-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

When you're a graphic illustrator, understanding human anatomy is only part of the skill set you need to successfully compose vivid and expressive figures. This course will survey key concerns such as solidity, movement, body language and stagecraft, in an effort to coordinate what you can learn about the figure with what you can see and imagine. Sessions will alternate between life drawing from the model and figure construction from memory and imagination. This is a good course for people who draw well and would like to draw better.
NOTE: Please bring drawing paper and pencils, and your best cartoon character or figure drawing to the first session.

Instructor

Tom Motley

Cartoonist

Education:

BFA, Washington University

Books include:

The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, The Twilight of the Bums

Publications include:

Nickelodeon magazine, Steel Pulse Pro-Wrestling Adventures, True Fiction, Brooklyn Rail, Eros Comix, The Stranger

Clients include:

Art Students League of Denver, Abrons Arts Center, La Leche League, National Endowment for Financial Education, Merrill Corporation, Rain Taxi, Mizel Arts and Culture Center

Exhibitions include:

Singer Gallery, Denver; Glovinsky Gallery of Contemporary Art, Denver

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Comics as Journalism

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2237-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

The reality based graphic novel is one of the most important new movements in comics, whether it is a news story like Joe Sacco's Palestine, an oral history like Art Spiegelman's Maus or autobiography like Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. In this course, students will go out into the world and document real life situations in comic-book form. They will have the opportunity to work with community organizations to cover current events or to study their own personal relationships more closely. They will learn to gather information through observation, interviews, photo-reference and location sketches. And they will learn how to compile and edit this information to make a compelling graphic story.

Instructor

Seth Tobocman

Illustrator, comic book artist

Education:

Pratt Institute, New York University

Books include:

War in the Neighborhood; You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive; World War 3 Illustrated 1980-1988; Disaster and Resistance; Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians; Three Cities Against the Wall World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics. Founding editor, World War 3 Illustrated

Magazine publications include:

Heavy Metal, The Village Voice, Tikkun, Maximum Rock n' Roll, The New York Times, Internazionale, The Nation

Clients include:

Inx Syndication (United Media), Warner Brothers

Group exhibitions include:

Exit Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, ABC No Rio

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Creating Independent Comics

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2632-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

The world of self-publishing is exploding and independent comic festivals are multiplying rapidly all over the country. Small batch printers have made professional-quality printing accessible even to the most limited of budgets. The Internet has enabled what had been relatively isolated access to new markets and resources. This course will explore and practice the methods of creating, publishing, marketing and distributing independent comics. The core project, which will extend the duration of the course, is for each student to develop a single-comic story that starts with a base concept and finishes with a final self-publication. Each session includes discussion on an aspect of this process, followed by critiques and studio time with personal instruction.

Instructor

C.M. Butzer

Illustrator, cartoonist

Education:

BFA, Cornish College of the Arts; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Author, illustrator:

Gettysburg: the Graphic Novel

Clients include:

HarperCollins Publishers, New York Press, J. Walter Thompson, Playboy, Dorling & Kindersley, Harcourt Brace, Miles Kelly Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, Time

Awards include:

Society of Illustrators, American Library Association

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Comics Projects

Course Details
  • Course Number CIC-2773-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 10 - Aug 12
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

The past, present and future are simultaneously real and visible in the landscape of the comics page. Unlike other media, comics uniquely manipulate the viewer's sense of time and space, smell and felling, narrative and place through the use of transitions and juxtapositions. In this course, students will research and practice the comic form and explore the infinite possibilities of how to produce meaning through the sequence of images and words. Students will create stories from their own scripts and thumbnails (that can be created at the beginning of the course). Each story page will be penciled, critiqued and polished, and inked. All aspects of creating comics will be covered, from character and page design to inking and production. Marketing online, in stores and comic conventions will also be addressed.

Instructor

Keith Mayerson

Illustrator, fine artist

Education:

BA, Brown University; MFA, University of California, Irvine

Represented by:

Derek Eller Gallery; Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Belgium

one-person exhibitions include:

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; Kiki Gallery, San Francisco; Jay Gorney Modern Art

Group exhibitions include:

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Paul Kasmin Gallery; James Cohan Gallery; Anton Kern Gallery; Greene Naftali Gallery; Daniel Weinberg Gallery; Elizabeth Dee; Nicole Klagsbrun; Mary Boone Gallery; Matthew Marks Gallery

Collections Include:

Cleveland Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Publications include:

Horror Hospital Unplugged, Artforum, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bomb, The Comics Journal, Time Out New York, Interview, The New Yorker, Art in America, Paper, Plain Dealer, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, artnet, Publishers Weekly, New York Observer, The Journal, Hunter and Cook, Art & Auction

 

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Inking Comics

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2114-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

In comics, after the pencil lines are erased, all that remains is the ink drawing-so it has to be done right. This course will present a variety of techniques (such as hatching, dry brush and wash) and tools (including quill pen, brush and technical pen). Inking can be demanding, and you will learn how to relax and enjoy the process while keeping an eye toward improvement. Emphasis will be placed on preparation, as well as pencilling styles that anticipate your inking technique.
NOTE: Please bring a sketchbook (11x14"), 2B pencils and samples of your work to the first session.

Instructor

Lauren R. Weinstein

Cartoonist, illustrator

Publications include:

Goddess of War, Stuck in the Middle, Best American Comics, An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Inside Vineyland, The Great Women Cartoonists

Awards include:

Xeric Grant, Ignatz Award

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The Art of the Graphic Novel

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2473-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

Designed for students interested in the art of storytelling through graphic novels, the focus of this course will be for each student to create a mini-comic. Every phase of production will be explored extensively: composing a story, developing a pace through layout and composition, learning the fundamental tools of sequential illustration and then unifying the entire structure into a self-published piece. A historical perspective of the medium will be included. In addition, a group publication will be produced at the end of the course.

Instructor

Sungyoon Choi

Illustrator; comic book artist; production director, Rabid Rabbit

Education:

MFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients include:

The New York Times, Art Asia Pacific, Playboy, Berlin Cameron United

Publications include:

American Widow, Rabid Rabbit Comic Anthology

Awards and honors include:

3x3, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration

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Illustration and Cartooning for the Hispanic Artist in the U.S.

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-3954-S
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

In this course, students will learn about opportunities available in the national, Hispanic and bilingual markets in the United States and how to break into them. A variety of accomplished Hispanic artists and illustrators will be studied to understand the roles they have played in their creative fields. We will talk about current opportunities-from children's books to printed media and animation- and about how to make effective use of humor and your cultural heritage as elements to enrich your work. We will explore strategies to present and market your artwork, including online promotion, preparing your images and portfolio, resume, copyright, pricing and the "dos" and "don'ts" of the business. We will complete several pieces for portfolio inclusion.
NOTE: This is a bilingual course and requires fluency in the Spanish language. Please refer to the ¿Hablas Diseño? courses that begin on page 24 of this bulletin for a complete listing of course offerings conducted in Spanish.

Instructor

Felipe Galindo

Cartoonist, illustrator, animator, painter

Education:

BFA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Clients include:

The New Yorker, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Narrative, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, MAD, The Spectator, Newsday, Barron's, Nickelodeon

books include:

No Man is a Desert Island, Manhatitlan, Cats Will Be Cats

books illustrated include:

The Big Book of How, My Teacher Can Teach Anything

Animated projects include:

The Manhatitlan Chronicles, Feggorama, Manhatitlan Codex

Awards include:

Puffin Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts; US/Mexico Fund for Culture, Rockefeller Foundation; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; National Association of Latino Arts and Culture; Porto Cartoon Festival, Portugal; United Nationas Correspondents Association; Greek Ministry of Culture; San Antonio Cine Festival

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