Professional Manga Drawing, Digital Drawing Course( 9 -18 years old)

Course Content:

1. Be introduced to manga drawing with dry mediums of pencils and markers, and develop a manga drawing foundation with traditional dry mediums 

    – Character’s face and body anatomy, form and composition of manga character, facial expressions, manga character drawing and styling

2. Learn and practise manga character drawing with digital drawing and painting (optional)*

   – Be introduced to various pencil and brush tools and techniques of digital drawing and painting for manga character design and digital art 

3. Learn to draft and sketch manga style characters and elements, develop your own manga sketches and renderings 

4. Accomplish a range of manga style artworks with both traditional art mediums and digital drawing and painting. Students have the flexibility to choose to work with either traditional mediums on completing final works or a mix of traditional and digital art mediums. (a number of manga style artworks will be completed based on individual preferences of mediums)

*Optional: students may join this course if they want to learn manga drawing with traditional mediums only. The option of learning with digital drawing and painting are for those who also wish to learn and explore manga digital drawing and painting. 

Style of course and lesson delivery:

Fixed Class Schedule: The lesson and course is delivered on a fixed schedule of Friday 2:30pm-4:30pm from 21 April 2023, and students may make up for up to four missed classes on Monday 5pm-7pm or Thursday 3:30pm-5:30pm. (There is no option for digital manga drawing and painting for make up lessons.)

Group Class Coaching: Small class teacher to student ratio. The instructor is an experienced manga art and digital drawing illustrator and artist and art instructor. Students are coached individually in this class with comments, demonstration and tips provided on a one-to-one basisc during the group class setting. 

Accommodating various experience and skill levels: The course goes through the learning topics and provides students with tips and individualised comments for improvements which allows students of different levels to be able to learn effectively and be instructed individually.

Course Objectives:

1. Develop two pieces of manga character drawing with traditional mediums (coloured or graphic black and white)
2. Complete two pieces of full manga digital artwork incorporating character design, background and scene
3. Create a three to five scene comic strip incorporating self-designed manga characters and scene

This course runs for 2 hours for each session. It is suitable for beginners who have attended art classes previously or currently. Recommended for children of minimum 9 years told to teenagers and young adults. There will be foundation and theoretical knowledge taught to the students during their art classes.

All art materials are provided. Validity for twelve sessions is fourteen weeks with up to four make up classes (on the same schedule Friday 2:30pm-4:30pm or on Monday 5pm-7pm or Thursday 3:30pm-5:30pm.