Cartoon & Comic Arts in London 2015
Day One and Cartoon & Comic Arts headed down to London for their annual trip to visit the big smoke and to explore the world of comics.
This year we booked into the Generator just a short walk from The British Museum.
After lunch we headed to the British Museum to see a Manga Exhibition and also how sequential
art has been used throughout the history of mankind.
After that we headed off to
various Comic Shops which held displays of ex students work – Forbidden Planet,
Orbital Comics and Gosh Comics before hitting China Town for a bite to eat.
Day 2
Cartoon Museum – Association of Illustrators
Exhibition – Drawing along the Thames
At the Cartoon Museum, Steve
Marchant, former Beano Comic Artist and Curator of the National Lottery funding
which the university is part of gives a talk about the artwork that is on show
and also about the Young Cartoonist of the year which some of the students
entered while there.
After lunch we made our way to
Somerset House where the students viewed the Association of Illustrators
exhibition of up and coming artist. We have created close ties with the
Association of Illustrators and Fig Taylor the their portfolio reviewer comes
in and gives talks to both Cartoon and Comic Arts and Illustration students.
Holly shows off what she brought at the shops yesterday and
Lewis finds his true calling as a Egyptian Pharaoh surrounded by his slaves.
Taking almost 30 students around London is a lot of hard
work. But we think they enjoyed it with the drawing task and we headed to the
National Portrait Gallery where there was a class the students could join in
with.
This was suppose be a drawing exercise along the Thames.
The students ponder the bigger meaning of what the London
Eye is… Or isn’t!
DAY 3
MCM the UK’s largest Comic Con and Expo event. Last year the
2nd years went to the May event to sell their work at the convention
and it was a success with all students selling something and quite a few
selling out of their work. The first years went to be a part of it and absorb
the atmosphere and also catch up with some of the previous years Alumni.
