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.
Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post. What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it indicated by perfect color mixes, sequences of color matches? What about …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Each participant draws or collages an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is the first week in a …
According to her website, Carol Marine was showing in 7 galleries, but still not making a living on her artwork. In addition, since art school she thought paintings had to be big, and that was causing her a lot of misery. After adopting her baby son, she had no time for painting, but when her …
I’m currently reading the The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. I wouldn’t wish the book or the subject on anyone, were it not imperative. In Seattle, the temperature typically varies from 37°F to 79°F, and right now we’re setting unpresidented records for heat, day after day, so it’s seeming especially imperative today. “In Seattle, where …
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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