Cartoon and Comic Arts: Christmas Fair

2nd Years Christmas fair

Cartoon and Comic Arts team up with Illustration students

For the second year running, Cartoon and Comic arts Students team up with Illustration students as part of their Visual Storytelling module to produce a Christmas fair. The students were given an audio book that had gone out of copyright as a starting point for this project. So from Wuthering Heights to Dorian Gray the students had a lot to go at.

The point of the project was to prepare the students to working in a consumer lead environment. It made them think about their intended audience as actual people rather than trying to produce something to get marks and graded. It pushed them into areas of learning about advertising and marketing their work. Students had to get used to talking to their customers about their work and had to learn how to engage with the general public.

The students arrived early to set up the area. People had different ideas about how they wanted their tables to look and some had gone the extra mile to demonstrate their eagerness to produce and sell work at the event.

Table set up still on going

illustration student Joe and Cartoonist Carl team up to run thier stand. Joe had "Lord of the Flies" as his book and Cart and "Matilda"

Two mature comic artist Shaun "The Hobbit" and Conan "Matilda" on their stand. Shaun was also drawing sketches and Conan had an additional surprise for his stall

A 3rd year student Drew Hird, popped across to give advice on how to sell their work to Emily and Rebecca.

International Man of mystery Josh "Jeckyl and Hyde" helps to run his and Sarah's stand at the event.

Mike is joined by his mate to help run his and Joe Assi, while Joe is on patrol around the event.

Millie and Diana work on louring people to their stand.

The illustration students were really up for the challenge of running a table at the event. they produced some really novel stuff, like the screen printed tote bags.

Danielle and Seren work on their pitch to get customers over to the table. Danielle used her cosplay to great effect at the event.

Another 2 illustration students who did really well at the event and produced some really good work.

Danielle hold fort for herself and Lawrence

Jasmin and Scarlett made the perfect team

Max the Pirate made his mark with a couple of illustration students

Acouple of third year students were keen to make their mark at the event, and try to relive their first attempt at running a stall at a Christmas event