Saturday 31 May 2014

4 more seats left for Extreme Manga course in Brighton!

Hello, people!
There is an unmissable manga course at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton.

Extreme Manga is a special course for people want to know & try creating manga. Which you would gain basic knowledge + knowledge which never been taught at other schools.
The course is £45 and starts on Friday 6th June from 7 - 9pm ( with 15 min break ), then 3 following Fridays:
1st Friday (6th June) Manga unmasked
An introduction of it's culture. "How much do you know about manga?"
You will practice a basic manga character drawings. It's not as simple as a stick man or Simpsons type, but not as realistic as observation drawings.
Please bring any questions / any specific pens or tools you want to practice with / artworks you want to show.


2nd Friday (13th June) - Friday the 13th the horror, the underground manga
Manga is only for kids & teenagers? No, take this course - you'll find out why.
You'll experience see some extreme examples to go beyond.
if you know a lot about British underground and zine culture, it would be a good comparison.

3rd Friday (20th June) - Love unlimited
In particularly manga, there are countless genre of depicting love - Yaoi, Yuri, furry, Otokonoko, and more.
But how you express different kind of love?
Yaoi manga artist, Chie Kutsuwada also join us to enrich the activity.

Final Friday (27th June) - Happily ever after?
Create 1 page manga with a guidance of Inko.
In either a short story or a art of a bigger scale story, but let's sum up one episode.
This is a good opportunity to use skills you gained through the previous classes and get practical advices from Inko.

I'll giving away info of career advise, further readings, competitions & conventions to join...


So if you're up for it, please book soon. :D