Drama Drawing

Drama Drawing 

As a different way to look at drawing and sequential art, cartoon and Comic Art students teamed up with Drama students who were rehearsing their final year plays, to draw the action as it flowed. 
Here are some of the Sketches and images from their performances 
Below are the Scenes from 2 Noble Kins Men 

Above shows an amalgamation of work submitted. 

Scenes performed by Drama Students of graduating Year 2018

Below are some of the student sketches to the rehearsal 

                        

Above The image tries to project the flow of the scene, in this case from right to left! 

Below are photos taken of the students who drew the rehearsal 

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  

Hidden away, Millie and Vicky working behind the scenes

Tom manning his table 

Elliot and Laura working their table 

One of the most unusual stalls, Katie and Gee running their stands where Gee made Dracula Capes for Cats to wear.! 

Strike a pose with Meg and Alex 

Finally Ellie on her stall doing the business

At the door greeting people were AckwardBex and myself. 

  

Getting Ready for the Degree Show

For the 4th year the BA Hons Cartoon and Comic Arts students will be putting on a degree show with the Opening Night on Friday 2nd June at 6pm in the Cadman Building.

So there has been a lot of preparation work needed to get the studio in a position ready to be made ready for the show boards to be installed.

Keep an eye on the Twitter account CartoonandComic for the show build up date.

Drink and Draw

Thursday 27th February 2014 saw Staffordshire University do its first ever drink and draw in the students union Ember Lounge. Students were asked to turn up in Cosplay and model while others drew them. The night saw guest artists such as John Charles from MarvelUK and Jason Brindley 2000AD as well as Kevin Gunstone a writer for Markosi. The night was enjoyed by not just cartoonist,  but illustrators, animators and VFXers.