Friday, January 8, 2021
Artists Talking Art: The Power of Cartoons
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Winter/Spring Online Cartooning Courses
SVA's catalog is up and running for classes beginning late in January.
Join me for Thinking In Ink, Tuesdays, Figure Drawing for Cartoonists, Wednesdays, and Cartooning Basics, Thursdays. All classes are in the evenings, 6:30-9:30 EST, and can be taken via Zoom from anywhere in the world.
These are fun and challenging. There's much to learn.
Check out this student's description of her course project in Cartooning Basics.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
DO NOT FAIL TO VOTE
Friday, September 18, 2020
Study Cartooning Online this Fall
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Brian Miguel has some fun with our present lifestyle. |
Stuck at home with our dreams and ambitions and so so much to vent, this seems a good time to work on funny pictures.
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Nancy Dougherty stuns with this homage to psychedelic posters. |
Sheila Robinson claimed not to have drawn much before taking the figure class. She proved a quick study and charmed us all with her lively animal sketches. |
Sunday, August 30, 2020
From the Archive, True Fiction #1, 2000
Has it really been 20 years? This minicomic, informally titled "Loss of Face," was my first attempt at improvising ink illustrations on the blank page, sans penciling. Many of the panels are collaged from various "takes."
The story was written in a similarly impromptu way. I was having coffee with a fellow cartoonist who complained of the difficulty of coming up with stories. I replied that a story could be begun from any thought or observation. Said friend had a prominent schnozz, so the first thought off the top of my head, offered as an example, became the first line here.
The series title may seem at first like a paradox or contradiction. I've noticed a couple of video productions using the name since. They usually refer to work that somehow blurs the line between documentary and fiction. But that's true of all documentary and all fiction. By True Fiction, I mean authentic fiction. That would be fiction that has nothing true about it. Usually, I intend metafiction and other experimental approaches. I've put out a dozen or so little self-publications under the name in the decades since, FWIW.
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Student Spotlight: Thinking In Ink
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Laurence Maslon's brush and ink sketch of his dog, Ruby. |
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Anne Keating's crosshatch study of a zombie plush doll |
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Julie Cleveland's sensitive-line drawing of a jawbone and plaster cast. |
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Maslon's tone-map design for a film-noir poster, ... |
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...and an ink wash study for another. |
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Lynn Bernstein added spot color to her high contrast study of William Powell,... |
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...and this hatched illustration of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan. |
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Anne Keating rubricated her Tarot card design. |
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Julie Cleveland finished a poster with wash and a dash of color. |
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Laurence Maslon cut a stencil merging shadows for an image of The Shadow himself. |
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Anne Keating carved stencils of seashells and airbrushed them in Photoshop,... |
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...and she invented a method of drawing with a wine cork. |
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Quarantoons
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Wraparound cover for the class comic at The New School's Pre-college Cartooning grades 3-5 spring course. We usually end with a printed book. This time we settled for a pdf. |
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Elementary art teacher, Lynn Bernstein, began a Covid diary comic. |
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The view from Lynn's kitchen, I presume. |
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Julie Cleveland wills herself to a better place in this cinematic comic page for Think In Ink |
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Acting professor and caricaturist, Laurence Maslon memorialized the new way of conducting classes. |
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Highlights from Julius Giardina's minicomic project for Cartooning Basics. |
Friday, January 17, 2020
Figure Drawing for Cartoonists Student Work
Skeletons at the park by Lindsay Ducey |
We had a dynamic group in Figure Drawing for Cartoonists last semester. I managed to document a couple of the amazing pieces by a couple of the amazing people, Lindsay Ducey and G. H, Yamauchi.
G. H. Yamauchi opted to work on skeletons of children. |
Yamauchi bravely knocked out her comic in ink. |