Nicolas Wild
Creating comics and graphic reportage / 03.08.2015–15.08.2015
Medium/Media: Drawing on paper or digital devicesLocation: Festung Hohensalzburg
Language: English, French
What to bring: A sketchbook and A4 size paper, ink, pencils, charcoal, acrylic or any tools you like to use to sketch and draw (these can be purchased in the Academy shop); laptop or Wacom tablet if you draw digitally. Bring also a couple of drawings you made when you were a child. If available, bring a musical instrument (small ones, leave your organ at home). And a food speciality from your home town (optional).
Requirements: The students should have basic illustration skills. Be able to draw a stick man will do.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Co-teacher: Nina Prader
What to bring: A sketchbook and A4 size paper, ink, pencils, charcoal, acrylic or any tools you like to use to sketch and draw (these can be purchased in the Academy shop); laptop or Wacom tablet if you draw digitally. Bring also a couple of drawings you made when you were a child. If available, bring a musical instrument (small ones, leave your organ at home). And a food speciality from your home town (optional).
Requirements: The students should have basic illustration skills. Be able to draw a stick man will do.
Maximum number of participants: 20
Co-teacher: Nina Prader
Comic reportage has become more and more popular in the last decades. Under this appellation, there are journalists like Joe Sacco, reporting about conflicts in the Middle East and also artists like Marjane Satrapi, writing about their own life.
In this course, each student is invited to create a short comic inspired by a true story. He/she can produce a “live” graphic reportage in the city of Salzburg or work on a story that happened to him/her or someone else in the past. Students can also work together.
We will start each class with a little exercise related to storytelling or drawing. The graphic quality and the style of the student’s illustrations do not matter much. The main purpose of the course is to work on the relation between texts and images and to develop skills in visual narration. We will make use of sketches, photos and visual imagination for creating comics. Students who have already started a graphic novel are welcome to show their project and to use the course to continue working on it. At the end of the class, each student should have his/her comic fully storyboarded and have at least one page finalised. Co-Teacher: Nina Prader
Biography:
Nicolas Wild