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COMICS WORKSHOP
HOW-TO
Cartooning projects & techniques! Draw along @ home …
How to Draw FREEMAN COLBY
Videos from the Civil War graphic novels!
MORE VIDEOS:
How to Create a (Historical Adventure) Graphic Novel
Super-quick tour of our sources & methods for Freeman Colby Vol. 3!
Freeman Colby @ Spottsylvania Court House (12 May 1864)
Inking a 2-page spread from VOLUME 3…
Sunflower Mirror-Doodle Demo
Relax + recharge + surprise yourself!
Let’s Get #LeadFree: FIX IT!
Simple steps to minimize lead risks… Plus how to FIX your home’s lead problem!
Let’s Get #LeadFree: TEST IT!
The first steps toward a #LeadSafe home…
“Let’s Talk About Lead…”
“Let’s talk about LEAD… / And I don’t mean just chemistry / I mean the shockingly toxic stuff / Found all ’round our communities…”
Live-Draw: Mystery Fairy Village
Winter Solstice meditation for crayon & piano.
Monday Monsters Live: Ukulele Robot Vs. Monster Tuba!
Patrons’ choice session… (You asked for it!)
Monday Monsters Live: Tentacle Piano!
Octopus + Piano = ??
Rebellion or Insurrection (18 U.S. Code § 2383)
Drawn to better understand the law…
Monday Monsters Live: Accordion Double-Header!
Two very different monsters honkin’ away on two very different accordions…
Monday Monsters Live: Guitar Monster!
Guitar monster holds a favorite note!
Monday Monsters Live: Banjo Duet!
Two monsters rockin’ out on two very different banjos…
Drawing the Law: Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S. Code § 2384)
I drew this 2-page comic as a way to better understand the details of the law…
Winter Star 2020-2021
Winter Solstice meditation for crayon & piano.
“Micro-Library” Comics Camp
In this live-draw series, we’ll create lots of tiny books & build a library to store ’em!
Coloring Freeman Colby’s “Wilderness”
Drawing a FREEMAN COLBY VOL. 3 battle scene from May, 1864!
1st Amendment & “Democracy” (Music Video)
From a recent live-draw on Facebook…
Comics Workshop Tutorial: “Alligator P*I.E.”
Especially for students, families, & hosts of my online programs…
Germ Theory: “What Is the Brick?” (Krazy Chat / 12 May 1920)
Featuring special guest MK Czerwiec (a.k.a. Comic Nurse)!
Comics Workshop Tools Overview
Especially for students, families, & hosts of my online programs…
“This Is (Not) a (China) Egg” (Krazy Chat / 6 May 1920)
Immigration, Fake News, & White-Mouse-on-Black-Cat Violence in Coconino County, 1920
Woody Guthrie’s “Tom Joad” #1
Adapting the first 6 verses of Woody Guthrie’s song, based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel…
“Lovely, Dark, & Deep” (Gospel of Krazy Book ’20 Ch.4:29)
A close, quick reading of secrets hidden in a 100-year-old strip!
Woogums #2: Procrastination Poster
Drawing alien gladiator champions helps me get ideas.
#4: Hiking w/ Monsters
We’re celebrating Earth Day with some monstrously cartoony WORLD-BUILDING!
1 Monster Invites Another
How one monster grows into a quarter-thousand (& counting)…!
“Sarah Low: Civil War Volunteer” (8p Comics Report)
How to create a quick 8-page mini “comics report” drawn from primary sources!
Let’s Draw MONSTERS! (LEVELS 6-8)
LEVEL 6 Eyes, Seven-Staffs, Gruesome Grimaces, … plus P.I.E.!
How to Draw Freeman Colby #3: Nurse Sarah Low
Draw along as Marek builds a splash page of nurse Sarah Low!
How to Draw Freeman Colby #2: Enlisting (August 1862)
Draw along as the boys enlist in the 39th Mass. Volunteers!
Let’s Draw MONSTERS! (LEVELS 1-5)
Demonstrates basic monsterological terms & designs…
Cartooning Basics #2: Faces & Body Language
Sometimes it helps to act out an idea, and FEEL the picture in your body…
Diary Comic: "When I Feel…"
This simple 4-panel format helps me turn an EMOTION into a STORY…
Cartooning Basics #1: Shapes & Faces
Anybody can draw cartoons… Follow along at home, & you’ll be surprised at the results!
“Set Up a Blank (1-Sheet) Mini-Comic”
8 blank pages, ready to draw on! No stapler required.
“Corona Vs. Clown” (Monster Fight!)
= A full-color monster-fighting rally song & crayon demo! WHO WILL WIN?!?!
“Woogums Goes for a Walk” (1-Sheet / 8 Page)
A desktop quick-draw, from blank paper to finished 8-page mini-comic…
1-Sheet / 8 page Mini-Comic (Folding)
A super-quick demo of folding a blank booklet from a single sheet of paper.
“Jingle Bells” Quick-Draw Monster Sleigh Ride
Here’s a little mid-winter musical mayhem for the New Year….
How to Draw Freeman Colby #1: Stick Figure Soldier
History cartooning tips from VOL. 2!
Nurse Sarah Low / “Hospital Cat” (1863)
COLOR POSTER ART: Nurse Low writes in her hospital log book while the local cat hunts rats.
“Boomer Johnson” (Pig Version) / Henry Herbert Knibbs
Drawn for the 35th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering at Elko, Nevada.
Drawing Freeman Colby Vol. 2: New Year’s Day, 1863
Guarding the Potomac w/ Freeman Colby & Jonas Bacon.
Blob Doodle: “Sing Spring!”
Daily quick-draw blob doodle exercise…
Build a World: Troll Hunting
Josephine scours the forest in search of particularly perilous prey…
Build a World: Witch’s Cottage
A branchy tour of the witch’s front yard, gardens, &c.:
Build a World: Orchard Wall
A stump-hut near the top of the old Giant’s Wall:
Build a World: Cave Ruins
A quick landscape around the ruins of an ancient jungle cave site:
Build Your Own 8-Page Mini (Video)
When you’ve drawn your story, and you’re ready to self-publish it…
2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues Video
Finally, a video version of our earlier all-comics proof …
“Un Millón de Amigos” (video)
Here’s a video of “Un Millón de Amigos”, performed (and drawn) by my Coffee Camp students at La Hermandad:
SONG: “Que Linda Es Nicaragua”
Students in the 2009 HSR Comics Exchange sing “Nicaragua Mia” (by Tino Lopez Guerra): Hey! Look! It’s the lyrics in COMIIIIIIIICS!:
“Arbol” (Janeris)
“Arbol” drawn by Yaneris (HSR Comics Exchange 2010):
“Pollito” (Reyna)
“Pollito” drawn by Reyna (HSR Comics Exchange 2010):
“El Salto” (Isael)
“El Salto” drawn by Isael (HSR Comics Delegation, 2010) …
HSR Comics Exchange: Intro Video (2009)
2009 HSR Comics Delegation supported by Henniker-San Ramon Sister Community Project, with generous support from NH State Council on the Arts, Autodesk, Henniker Rotary, &c. …
“Build Your Own 8-Page”: ORIGINAL MINI | Updated POSTER version (2019)
“How to Create Comics”: ORIGINAL MINI |
PLAYLIST: “COMICS WORKSHOP Speed Draw!”
A full playlist of all Marek’s SPEED DRAW videos…
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