Welcome to day 2 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! This year is so darned special, there are two simultaneous challenges. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based on the year 2020. You choose what you’re up for today. Today’s prompt will be applicable to both.
Quilt design panels from eyemu
30SAL Challenge: Panels
Gather old drawings, abandoned paintings, magazines, catalogues, newspapers, fabric, wrappers, labels, whatever you have around you. Cut them into shapes that fit together to form a larger composition – whether through an interaction of color (like a quilt or abstract geometric painting) or with a sequence of narrative scenes. If it adds to the expression, feel free to add cut out speech bubbles with thoughts, statements, and written sound effects. Hot tip for the drawing phobic: kid’s drawings are perfect for this! 2020 Comic illustrators: consider playing with formats like this for your comic sequences going forward. See below for more ideas about comic panels and sequencing.
Bullfight, photo collage by Josef Albers
Click here for free printable panel formats for comics & abstracts.
“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee “I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of …
This is day 14 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. We’ve got a playful challenge today, so put away your adult and get your little kid self ready! Set something small and round like a glass marble or an egg on a piece of paper. Place your …
[image_with_animation image_url=”5970″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Sunrise looks like sunset, with this much smoke in the air. Yesterday every smoke alarm in my building was wailing, and my phone, no longer under my control, said “fah-yer. fah-yer.fah-yer.fah-yer.” The view outside was orange and hazy, and for a short childish moment, I thought the entire world …
I’ve been watching episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down. I hadn’t previously considered ceramics as a spectator sport, but it’s crazy fun to watch people make pottery! In every episode, amature potters respond to a wide variety of maker challenges. Some are races against the clock, some push contestants to go out on a …
30SAL Challenge: Panels
Welcome to day 2 of our 30 Day Creative Challenge! This year is so darned special, there are two simultaneous challenges. The primary challenge is to respond to the creative prompts in these posts, and see what happens. The alternative challenge is to make a comic based on the year 2020. You choose what you’re up for today. Today’s prompt will be applicable to both.
30SAL Challenge: Panels
Gather old drawings, abandoned paintings, magazines, catalogues, newspapers, fabric, wrappers, labels, whatever you have around you. Cut them into shapes that fit together to form a larger composition – whether through an interaction of color (like a quilt or abstract geometric painting) or with a sequence of narrative scenes. If it adds to the expression, feel free to add cut out speech bubbles with thoughts, statements, and written sound effects. Hot tip for the drawing phobic: kid’s drawings are perfect for this! 2020 Comic illustrators: consider playing with formats like this for your comic sequences going forward. See below for more ideas about comic panels and sequencing.
Click here for free printable panel formats for comics & abstracts.
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