Cartooning: Art for the People

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Taught by Madelyn F.

Madelyn is a part time cartoonist and a full time Looking-For-A-Jobber. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago, and dreams of working for business that promote sustainability and social responsibility. You can find her work scattered around her room and at demonaday.tumblr.com. She currently lives part time in Westchester and part time in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She enjoys playing the mandolin, making small figures out of clay, and riding bicycles through Iowa.

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I'm sure some of you read the title of this class and thought "Cartooning sounds nice, but I don't know how to draw. All my squirrels look like rabbits and my circles look like oblong spheroids."

Maybe some of you thought "Cartooning sounds frivolous--I'm a fabulous artist and wouldn't deign to do it! The only people who read cartoons are nerdy mouth-breathers and babies!" You're both wrong!

Cartooning is art for the people. It's been adopted by both part-time doodlers and some of the most inventive and subversive contemporary artists. This class will teach you how to do it yourself.

As long as you can draw a recognizable smiley-face, you can draw comics. And for those with a ton of drawing experience, cartooning is a way to exercise your writing chops and learn brand new things about humor and timing. Even people who have written comics before will enjoy exercising the fundamental skills needed to be a good cartoonist. All that's required is an impulse to express yourself. By the end of this class, your hand will be tired but your latent artist will be awake.

This is a studio class, so be prepared to draw a ton. By the end of the three sessions, everyone will have a 4-panel comic, the tools to start drawing comics on their own, and the new friends that only come when you draw in front of other people.

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