Kids age 8-12 were able to indulge in a session of Manga Art at Otterspace today!
Collaborating with Otterspace to deliver the classes means kids get to learn the kind of drawing skills they REALLY want to work on in a super fun environment! And I have the pleasure of teaching them the tips and tricks I’ve learned along the way to get the pictures they want to make out of their heads and onto the page.
The brightly-lit gaming room has its own corner library, stocked with a great selection of inspiring books and comics, more boardgames than you even knew existed, friendly staff, great coffee and snacks and so much more! It’s a pleasure just to be there let alone lead a class of talented young artists who love nothing more than to spend time honing their craft!
Today’s FREE taster class focussed on techniques to help draw faces. I worked with everyone to demonstrate how to use a few simple steps to get face shape and proportions just right as a basis for positioning nose, eyes, ears, mouth, brows etc. And just in case anyone needed to refer to those steps again after class, I sent everyone home with their own copy of my first ever custom handmade “Manga-zine”, packed with my own sketches and tips covering everything we did in this week’s class. (Check out my YouTube Short video at the bottom of this post to get a sneak peak of Vol.1 of my Manga Art Class Zine)
Be sure to book your place by selecting the class on your preferred day (Wed or Thur) on Otterspace’s website https://shop.otterspace.ie/event
Classes cost 10 Euros per person per class.