A good character design requires what Ivan can Brunetti calls the “Five C’s” of cartooning: calligraphy, composition, clarity, consistency, and communication. In this weekend workshop, you’ll use all of these principles to create a caste of original characters for use in comics, animation, illustration, or brand design. You’ll study examples of top-notch character cartooning throughout history and create a “reference library” of your favorite examples. Students will use shape language, silhouette, and proportion to refine characters weekly, and will finish class with a large collection of original characters.

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Gage Academy of Art acknowledges the Coast Salish Peoples as the original inhabitants of this area and connecting waterways. We understand the land that Gage occupies is unceded territory and that today many Indigenous peoples live here and without their stewardship, we would not have access to this space. We honor the Coast Salish Peoples’ sovereignty, rights to self-determination, culture and ways of life. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have called this territory their sacred land. We commit to learning, educating others and repairing the legacy of historically harmful relationships between non-Native and Native peoples in King County. In doing so, we will be honest, and recognize the experiences of Native peoples to include genocide, forced relocation, forced assimilation, and land theft. We also acknowledge Native peoples are survivors, present in today’s world, thriving. We encourage everyone here today to ask themselves: what can I do to support Indigenous communities?

In an effort to be transparent, Gage is contemplating this call to action and re-working how to best support Indigenous communities.

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