Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2014

Process #21: Christmas Comics Creating Party

Process is a monthly comics workshop/discussion group, run by Steve Walsh, that takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at Gosh! Comics.

This month's event was a festive comics jam and we spent the evening making comics, eating Jaffa Cakes and Quality Street, drinking beer and being forced to listen to xmas songs.


(photo courtesy of Matt Duncan)

Steve provided a selection of basic materials, including felt-tip pens, stickers and a xmas stamp set. I decided to use some of these stamps to make my comic. There was also a range of inspirational material provided by Jess Milton, Cristian Ortiz, Daniel de Sosa, Matt Boyer, Anna Dowsland, Saul Taylor and Tempo-Lush Richy K. Chandler (Steve had asked me if I could draw something too, but sadly I ran out of time!). I took one of Saul Taylor's blank variant cover designs, complete with Steve's face in the corner box, and used it for the cover to my comic.

And here's what I drawed (partially fuelled by alcohol and e-numbers):









It was a fun night, and there was also a couple of comics jam pages being passed around during the evening, with each person tasked with completing the comic from the previous panel and passing it on. I don't have any photos of those, but if they turn up online, I'll add them here...

Sunday, 2 December 2012

Secret Santa Sketch

Last night I went to my first party of the Festive Season, Zarina's Xmas-Manga-Mexican Party, and a very good evening it was too! And we did a Secret Santa Sketch, where everyone drew a 10-15 minute A5 black and white image before the party (or during the party if you hadn't done your homework!) and then everyone's names were put in a bag and the name you picked out, you got their sketch.

Here's my Secret Santa Sketch. I decided to pick up on the Xmas and Mexican themes, which according to Zarina was part of the "rules", although she hadn't actually told any of us that part...

And I got this cute Secret Santa Sketch by naniiebim...