Comics school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

Japanese Manga is an immensely popular genre of comics. This course explores the two definitive elements of manga: visual style and unique storytelling. Students learn to recognize and adapt Japanese influences into their own sequential artwork.

In this course, students create artwork for children’s books in which the picture primarily tells the story. Students have the option of generating original story ideas or adapting existing works of children’s literature.

Digital delivery and the empowerment of the independent creator are achieved by creating marketable, well-branded Web-comic sites that demonstrate intelligent formal use of the medium. Students gain skills necessary for site construction and promotion while learning the artistic history of the genre.

Concentrating on skills associated with printing, bookbinding and packaging, students develop a variety of mini-comics that showcase their sequential art in the form of handmade publications.

This course focuses on improving the students’ ability to execute a drawing of a reasonable likeness of an original or imagined subject in a limited amount of time. Sketches will continue to be used to build complex drawings and will be applied to storytelling for sequential art.