DW-WP

'Tis the festive season, and the time to receive presents. I've already mentioned how I'm pretty easy to buy for, and so it was unsurprising that my parents bought me an art-related book. This one is called Drawing Words and Writing Pictures and is a book based around a 15 lesson college course on creating comics. The 'tutors' are Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. 

I only got it yesterday but I am already super excited about it. The concept is so interesting: after a little lesson on the chapter, there are tasks and then homework tasks. This is really helpful for people working together, so they can give feedback on eachother, but I was worried that my working alone would mean I couldn't fully take advantage of this book. But, they've solved this problem for me. They have an amazing website (www.dw-wp.com) which gives feedback on each task the book sets. 

This is one of the assignments I did: a scenario showing a ball coming through a window, through a newspaper and a dog catching it. Clearly, this has a lot of action in it, and the chronology of this scene is really important. 

I like my little sketch , but found the feedback on the website really interesting. For instance, the way they mention how events should move from left to right to evoke the time span. 

(Left- an example of feedback on the website).

I find it a really inspiring book, because of how it sets things to do and makes me think of things I definitely would not have thought of. Hopefully, my comic work will improve and I'll be able to post some more pieces!