WIP Creating Comics Online - Community Special

Creating Comics is a monthly meetup, where we study the craft of drawn narratives with the goal of helping people create their own comics.

This is a community-led session, with a five exciting talks on a variety of subjects from members of the WIP Comics community:

🎤 No Worries If Not
How not to sell yourself and/or your comic (and how to Not not do that)

Presented by AJ O'Neill

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🎤 Putting perspective into perspective
Do you dread drawing complex backgrounds? Do the rules of perspective feel overwhelming, even arbitrary to you? Maybe you've tried using the built-in perspective grid that comes with many drawing programmes, but found it to be stiff and lifeless and want to learn how to do it yourself. If any of the above describes you, then you won't want to miss this talk!

In it, Kristina will explain the basics of perspective, yes, but she'll go further and give you a deeper understand of why it works. We'll learn how to incorporate perspective techniques into our composition from the very start, and we'll see how it can improve our drawing even when we're just drawing characters in a natural background.

Presented by Kristina Stipetic: https://www.kstipetic.com

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🎤 Running a small press comics fair
An introduction into the challenges (and wonders) of fostering our community by running a small press comic fair in your area! The presentation will cover all your need to know, including:

• Finding a venue,
• Important choices to make before announcing your fair,
• Working and communicating with others (aka…how to remain professional and considerate),
• Marketing your fair,
• Raising funds,
• Plus, lots and lots of little things you would never consider!

Presented by Chloe Starling: https://chloeestarling.substack.com/

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🎤 Creating Choice-driven Game Comics
Discover how to design non-linear comics in which the reader can choose which path to take, reminiscent of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game Books or Interactive Fiction games. Explore ideas on how to create a story that offers meaningful choices and consequences, remembers the reader’s oldest decisions or uses random chance to determine their fate.

Andi will mainly cover design techniques for physical books, but also some points on using digital apps and media.

Presented by Andi Cealera: linktr.ee/AndreasCealera

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🎤 Making comics for yesterday - how to make short stories for zines with limited time
How to make short story, design the characters to fit the plot and arranging pages/storyboarding.

Presented by Karolina Przybyl: https://ioctenocte.carrd.co/

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The session will be hosted by Mike Armstrong:
https://www.mike-armstrong.com/

See you there!