Do you struggle making a plan for yourself? Try making your OUTLINE. It can be as basic and rough as you’d like, just as long as you START IT!

An insight on the Artistic Process from Student and Graphic Novelist, Layne Glasgow.

See how Instructor Beth Trembley uses cards to brainstorm!

Join us for five-weeks to learn comics basics at SAW

Have you ever wanted to make a comic, but didn't know where to start? Are you an omnivorous artist that wants to try out new ideas? This workshop is for you! Jess Ruliffson will guide you through the process of idea-making, sketching layouts, and show a few inking techniques. By the end of the class, students will have inked their own one-page comic, and collaborated with attendees on an eight-panel mini-zine to take home!

In this 6-week comics-making class, we'll build basic comics creation skills through exercises and short projects.  Students will learn cartooning techniques and tools, design their own characters, practice drawing action, backgrounds and objects, and explore how to tell great stories in comics form.

Spend an afternoon learning to draw horses at farm in Alachua. Roxanne Palmer will break down horse anatomy and offer guidance as you draw horses from life.

This is a playful one day workshop based on expanding your visual vocabulary with found and traditional materials.

We are so excited to have Leslie Stein come to Gainesville to bring her funny, kind-hearted, dreamy watercolor magic to SAW artists! More info and links to reserve your space soon!

Join us for Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek's Gainesville stop on their fall living room tour. It's their only Florida show! Formerly of Come, Codeine, Live Skull, Uzi, Lemonheads, and a lot of other projects you'd definitely love, they're also both excellent solo songwriters and this show will be very special. 

Come to SAW's Low Residency Week to get creative focus! Jumpstart a new comics project, or get a wayward project back on track in this weeklong comics workshop.