All educational material on comics and general art.
The final Cloud Shop of the year is this Thursday at 7:30, the Cloudscape HQ. Learn perspective with Cloudscape co-founder Jonathon Dalton! Spend time polishing your backgrounds with some handy tricks for drawing any number of vanishing points with as few headaches as possible. To register for this free workshop, go […]
Drawing animals is hard! In this week’s Cloud Shop, let Alina Pete teach you how to better draw horses, dogs, cats, tigers, bears, and any other four-legged friends. Stop by at Cloudscape HQ on Thursday, 7:30-8:30. To register for this free workshop, visit Drawing Four-Legged Animals. For more details on future […]
This Thursday, stop by Cloudscape HQ, 7:30-8:30, to tighten up your storytelling chops with veteran comicker and animation storyboarder Steve LeCouilliard. To register for this free class, go to Storytelling for Comics. For more details on future Comic Shop talks, visit Cloudscape Cloud Shops.
Cloud Shop, Cloudscape’s series of free comic workshops, continues next week with two classes! Excel for Cartoonists On Wednesday, bookkeeper (and Cloudscape treasurer) Anat Rabkin will teach you how to use Microsoft Excel to manage your art career and keep track of your self-employment income. Time: September 6 (Wednesday), 7:30-8:30 Place: Cloudscape HQ. […]
Cloud Shop, Cloudscape’s series of free comic workshops, continues next Thursday. In this Cloud Shop, Jade McGilvrary shows you how to create sculptures for art references, wargaming, or just for fun! Time: August 24 (Thursday), 7:30-8:30 Place: Cloudscape HQ. 5955 Ross Street, Vancouver. To register, go to City of Vancouver: Sculpture and then check […]
Just a reminder that Langara College’s Graphic Novel & Comix program is starting its autumn classes next month. This program has already been running for a couple of years, and provides classes on all aspects of the comic medium. You can take all of them to get a full exploration of the […]
Langara College’s Graphic Novel & Comix program has already been running for a couple of years, teaching aspiring comic creators how to create their own comics. There are classes on comics writing, drawing, colouring, and various other aspects of the comic craft, all taught by local comic creators (many of them Cloudscape […]
For more of Micah Iwaasa’s webcomic on creating comics, visit the Comic Chunk Archives.
Only a couple of weeks until “Writing for Graphic Novels & Comix” starts at Langara, but there are still seats available. They are taught by Bevan Thomas, who has written and edited on numerous Cloudscape anthologies, most prominently the Gene Day-award-winning Epic Canadiana series. If you are interested in polishing off your […]
Just a reminder to everyone that Cloudscape’s free comics class, Comics in the Clouds, is starting January 13. You can sign-up for it at City of Vancouver – Comics in the Clouds. Spread the word to anyone you think would be interested.
