Cartooning for Grownups

Cartooning and Comics are an expressive medium an artist uses to deliver a message.  The messages are more than just superheroes and funny animals.  Cartooning today is an art form of major popularity and unlimited range.  Cartooning can be useful for graphic memoire, stories yet to be told, and simply the fun and excitement of everyday graphic life.

 In our first class we will explore the tools and techniques of sketching conventions to illustrate the characters and creatures you have stored in your imagination.  In the second class, we’ll graphically investigate the human body, the faces, and contortions in all forms of grace, wit, and strange convention.  In the third class, you will create a character, human, animal, plant, or other being – sad, happy, or zombie, and create a “comic” because nothing is sacred – and you’ll tell its story in the making.

About Barry Burgess

Barry was fortunate to receive a formal art education at The Art Institute of Chicago at a very young age. He navigated his artistic interests through years of sketching, painting, and sculpting and developed a talent that leaddirectly into architecture. Later in life he moved his family to the Inland. Northwest. He began a professional career that led him to Seattle. Now retired, he has returned to Sandpoint and enjoys his time exploring the outdoors, making art, and sharing his skill along the way.

 Schedule

April 9. 16, 23 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Supply List

Standard #2 household pencil

1 Household Eraser

1 Twin-Tip Sharpie (Fine and Extra Fine Tips) each end

A Variety of Colored Felt-Tip pens (no minimum)

1 All Media Sketching Paper 8.5 x 11, or 9 x 12 inches

NOTES:  Students may substitute personal items of equal quality.