Bring your imagination to life in this playful cartooning workshop focused on bold characters and expressive storytelling. Students will learn how to distort, exaggerate, and embellish their drawings to create zany cartoon characters full of action, drama, and humor. We’ll explore how posture, facial expression, and movement help characters tell a story or make a statement—no words required.
Cartoonists will practice expression drawing, strong line quality, and building characters from both imagination and real-life observation. We’ll also experiment with space, scale, and composition to make images pop off the page. Students will work with a variety of materials including pencil, paper, markers, ink, and watercolor, and leave with a collection of dynamic characters and ideas ready for comics, stories, or standalone artwork.