The Year Long Program Syllabus

SAW Year Long Program Syllabus

We run three courses at a time, for 6 weeks and then 2 more weeks to create an assignment based on the courses. Then, we do another 3 courses concurrently.

The course work is asynchronous, but we do have several live calls a week to help understand the course work and exercises.

What to expect from the coursework, week by week

Quarter 1

Week 1 - Topics

• Storytelling - The Narrative Image
  Drawing for Comics - Drawing the Figure in Gesture
  Hidden History - Distribution

EXERCISES: 

• Storytelling - 3 narrative images
  Drawing for Comics - 3 gestures from photos, 3 gestures from chart
  Hidden History - Answers in community

Week 2 -   Topics

• Storytelling - Playing with Time
  Drawing for Comics - Drawing the Face and Expressions
  Hidden History - Underground, Queer and International Comics

EXERCISES: 

• Storytelling - storytelling "sequence in time" exercise. 
  Drawing for Comics - 2 personal expression, 3 heads from photos, 6 invented heads
  Hidden History - Active discussion in community
  

Week 3 -

TOPICS:

• Storytelling - Silent Stories
  Drawing for Comics - Putting People in Spaces
  Hidden History - Archie Comics and Kids Comics
  

• EXERCISES: 

• Storytelling - Silent Diary Comics
  Drawing for Comics - Perspective Exercises: Hanging/floating heads
   Hidden History - Active discussion in community
  

• Week 4 -

• TOPICS: 
  Storytelling - Page Design
  Drawing for Comics - Arranging the Elements in a Panel
  Hidden History - Political, Propaganda and Informative Comics

• EXERCISES:Storytelling - A previous story reimagined on the page
  Drawing for Comics - A narrative image from a fairy tale in color and shape only
  Hidden History - Active discussion in community
  

• Week 5 Topics: 

• Storytelling - Story and Simple Story Structure
  Drawing for Comics - Composing Shots and Panels
  Hidden History - Zines and Memoir

• EXERCISES:

• Storytelling - What is the problem to be solved?
  Drawing for Comics - A range of shots and angles
  Hidden History - Active discussion in community
  
  Week 6 - INTEGRATION:

• Storytelling + Drawing for Comics - Integration and Final Assignment
  Hidden History - Innovation and Comics as Poetry

• Work weeks:  mid to late October

Work on final assignment, Dialogue with the Past.

Quarter 2

Week 1 - Topics

Ideas and Vision - Your Visual Pulse

Depth and Details - The Hidden Layers

Modern Comics Exploration - Intro to Modern Comics Exploration

Exercises:

Ideas and Vision - Your Visual Pulse

Depth and Details - Landscape 1, Layers exercise, Landscape 2

Week 2 - Topics

Ideas and Vision - Your Personal Store

Depth and Details - Details that Work, Details that Clutter

Modern Comics Exploration - Autobiography

Exercises:

Ideas and Vision - 100 Nouns, Draw Some Nouns

Depth and Details - Details 1 of 3 (Ruin or Cave), Details that work, details that don't

Week 3 - Topics

Ideas and Vision - Storytelling Vinyasa Part 1 - Gathering + Developing Ideas

Depth and Details - Organizing Details

Modern Comics Exploration - Manga Aesthetics

Exercises:

Ideas and Vision - Gathering Ideas, Developing the Idea

Depth and Details - Details 2 of 3 (Revisit Cave or Ruin)

Week 4 - Topics

Ideas and Vision - Storytelling Vinyasa Part  2 - Expanding and Editing Ideas

Depth and Details - A Look at an Illustration, Piece by Piece

Modern Comics Exploration - TBD

Exercises:

Ideas and Vision - 

Depth and Details -

Week 5

Ideas and Vision - Making your Stories and Strips Personal

Depth and Details - Groupings, Crowds and Windows Through Time

Modern Comics Exploration - Combatting Marginality

Exercises:

Ideas and Vision - Variety of exercises are live in the presentation.

Depth and Details - A drawing using grouping and crowds through windows and doors

Week 6

Ideas and Vision / Depth and Details - Integration and Final AssignmentModern Comics Exploration - An Image in a Ruin

Break until first week of January

LETTERING AND GUTTERS WEEK - first week January

QUARTER 3

Week 1 - Topics

Comics Frontiers -  Reading Order Unravelled https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10675196-introduction

Finishing Decisions - Working in Pencil
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28248183-working-and-finishing-in-pencil

Markets, Art and Practice - Art: Why Art? And more.
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/35120016-art-making-philosophy-and-the-big-questions-and-obstacles

Exercises:

Comics Frontiers: Polyomnio-https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10675196-introduction

Finishing Decisions: Submit a panel finished in pencil. https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28248801-exercise-submit-a-panel-in-pencil

Markets, Art + Practice: Why Art? And your Origin Story and Through- Line -
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/41318752-exercise-why-art-and-your-throughline

Week 2 - Topics

Comics Frontiers - Voice and Tone in Narration
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10684680-voice-introduction

Finishing Decisions - Working in ink
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28255598-working-and-finishing-in-ink-and-ink-wash

Markets, Art and Practice - Presenting Your Work and Talking about Your Practice -
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/35120021-week-two-how-to-present-your-work-and-talk-about-your-practice

Exercises:

Comics Frontiers- Voice and Tone in narration. you can do this with the video or with the video-
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10684680-voice-introduction

Finishing Decisions - Submit a finished panel in ink or ink wash
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28249212-exercise-submit-a-panel-in-ink-or-ink-wash

Markets, Art and Practice - You are a Graphic Novelist
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/41319878-exercise-you-are-a-graphic-novelist

Week 3 - Topics

Comics Frontiers - You Can't Do This in the Movies!
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10684715-you-can-t-do-this-in-the-movies-introduction-and-exercise

Finishing Decisions - Finishing in Paint -
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/31502257-case-studies-flower-voyeur-mothering-in-place

Markets, Art and Practice - Setting Goals and Meeting Deadlines
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/35120024-practice-setting-goals-and-meeting-deadlines

Exercises

Comics Frontiers - You Can't Do This in the Movies!
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10684715-you-can-t-do-this-in-the-movies-introduction-and-exercise

Finishing Decisions - Complete a panel in paint
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28249299-exercise-submit-a-painted-panel

Markets, Art and Practice - Plan your Q4 assignment -
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/61998639-exercise-plan-your-q4-project

Week 4 - Topics:

PHOTO COLLAGE in COMICS FRONTIERS! (We'll look at this live on the 2pm Eastern call on Monday!) https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/15919062-photo-comics-photo-collage-fotonovelas-and-fumetti-video-and-exercise

Finishing Decisions is about working digitally! https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28249313-intro-working-and-finishing-digitally

Markets Art and Practice: https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-markets-art-and-practice/texts/35120028-markets-getting-your-work-out-there-submitting-to-comics-anthologies-magazines-and-collections-vs-self-publishing

EXERCISES:

Comics Frontiers: Photocollage

Finishing Decisions: Submit a panel digitally for web and print:
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28249318-exercise-submit-a-digital-page-for-web-and-print

Markets, Art + Practice: Discuss where you read comics in the network, and where submissions might happen

Week 5 - Topics

Comics Frontiers is called Discord and Rhyme 

Finishing Decisions: Working digtal and analog in combination

Markets, Art + Practice 

Exercises:

Comics Frontiers: Discord and Rhyme: A personal story using Nancy panels as a visual metaphor: https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-comics-frontiers-with-tom-hart/texts/10684777-discord-and-rhyme-info-and-exercise-1

Finishing Decisions Exercise: Submit a panel that is a combination of analog and digital:
https://sequentialartistsworkshop.thinkific.com/courses/take/ylp-finishing-decisions/texts/28249411-exercise-submit-a-combination-panel

No exercise is Markets, Art and Practice, just keep the conversation going!

Week 6 -

Comics Frontiers - Exploring Formats, and Integration Assignment

Finishing Decisions - Planning Zines and Booklets, and Integration Assignment

Markets, Art and Practice - Life after school - maintaining a practice and comics community

QUARTER 4 Mid March - June 1 - Cohort mentoring and final assignment! -