Now I’m sure you’ve all read CBD Correspondent Jill Nagel’s report on her experiences at the Toronto Cartoonist Workshop! Now, let us take you on a mystical jour- ah hell forget it. Let’s just take a look at the pictures Jill took at the workshops so you can check out some of the awesomeness to be found at the TCW and see if it’s right for you.
- The writing class for all your aspiring comic writers out there!
- TCW coordinator, Walter Dickinson (middle) sits back and watched the class unfold.
- : Ty teaches us how the light and shade of a sphere can create dimension
- We can’t take our gazes off of Ty’s hands!
- Are you High Status or Low Status?
- Ty’s so good at teaching, he can do it with his eyes closed!
- Apparently we all stand in the shadow of the great Ty Templeton
- Don’t be afraid of the math on the blackboard
- …then writes some of their own
- The class ponders the use of high/low status in dialogue.
- Ty Templeton puts on his teaching cap
- Ty demonstrating the difference shading makes
- Ty shows us how to draw man-made and metallic items by varying line weight and using the all important ruler.
- Homework Assignment: Create a “starving artist drawing” using basic textures.
- : Homework Assignment: Can you draw an ordinary household item in 6 different textures?
- One of the final inking assignments
- He uses this technique on “Batman”
- Pen in hand, the class makes “Batman” a little more 3-dimensional
- Everyone has their own style.
- We cover “batman” in globes and start inking!























