A full day of character chaos, bold cartoons, and inventive illustration! Today’s workshop blends classic cartoon tricks with modern storytelling styles, giving budding artists heaps of freedom to experiment, exaggerate, and play.
Morning Session - Mix-and-Match Character Spinners
We’re bringing back one of our most-loved ideas - with a brand-new twist! Inspired by vintage spinning toys, we’ll create rotating character spinners packed with interchangeable heads, bodies and legs. Spin each section to reveal wild new combinations: aliens with ballerina legs, superheroes with dragon tails, shy robots with magician coats… anything goes!
We’ll explore fresh cartooning techniques like expressive silhouettes, dynamic poses, shape language and oversized features to make every mash-up hilarious, strange and full of personality.
Afternoon Session - Comic Book Page Creation
In the afternoon, we’ll shift into the world of visual storytelling as budding artists learn how to design and draw their own comic book page. We’ll explore layout planning, panel shapes, pacing, and how to guide the reader’s eye across the page. Artists will experiment with speech bubbles, sound effects, expressive illustration short-hands, and techniques for capturing action and emotion in just a few frames. To finish, everyone will write and illustrate a short comic narrative starring their own characters.
A playful, expressive day for makers who love characters, storytelling, and bringing imaginative worlds to life on the page!