Brief For this exercise the brief is to create your own superhero. This is an opportunity for students who love superhero comics to really indulge their interest and go to town. However, it need not exclude any students from attempting to create their own character. Your superhero does not have to be serious, or realistic, […]
Category: Part 4: Genres & Styles
Brief For this exercise you are to invent a character. there are three options for the character description: Young Detective Space Kid Animal Character Sketch up some rough ideas for each of these potential characters. Once you have sketched up some rough ideas, draw a finished colour character design (or digital drawing) on an A3 […]
How does the style and narrative treat the real-life story? As funny, serious, or a combination of the two? I would describe the comic as serious in nature – it has a factual and impersonal tone. How is the story structured? How does it begin and end, and from whose perspective is it told? The […]
I looked at examples of the suggested educational comics: Look and Learn, Chick tracts and Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s-2000 (although I could not find many examples online for the latter). As the Look and Learn comics were created from the 1980s-1960s, I felt the illustrations looked quite dated and the style of […]
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Exercise: True Stories
Brief This exercise is in two parts. Firstly, you need to decide on a famous person from history that you want to research. This could be a politician, royal figure, celebrity, pop star, inventor or sportsperson. It could be someone you already know a lot about or someone you want to find out more about. […]