{"id":93,"date":"2017-11-16T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:54:09","slug":"novel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/seminars\/novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Novel Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mini-nav\">\n<p><!-- add the text class=active between ><a and the href=... for current page only... remove it from other hrefs, if it exists (use preview to check) --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"active\" href=\"\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/courses\/novel\/\">Seminar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/courses\/novel\/novel-endorsements\/\">Endorsements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/reviews\/graphic-novel\/\">Recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"frame-it\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In-person seminars suspended until further notice. <\/span>See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/marshallart.com\/SHOP\/\">my shop<\/a> for videos and webinars.<\/div>\n<p>If you have an idea that you want to turn into a comic book or a graphic novel but you&#8217;re not sure about how to craft a story, this course will get you started with the most important skills. Writers often have a ton of ideas but don&#8217;t know how to assemble them into strong form, or they understand story structure but can&#8217;t get their ideas out. This workshop will give you exercises to overcome unnecessary carefulness that stifles creativity, and a series of questions that will prompt you to find the \u201cshape\u201d of your story. I will teach you the secrets of how to produce any kind of story, and also show you how to master the specific building materials of the graphic novel: pages and panels.<\/p>\n<p>This course meets for a varying number of sessions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>SESSIONS &amp; TOPICS<\/h3>\n<div class=\"seminar-topics\">\n<h4>Writing from the Gut<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Brainstorming<\/li>\n<li>Stream-of-Consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Subjective Structure<\/li>\n<li>The Secret of Productivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Revising from the Brain<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Finding and Developing Conflicts<\/li>\n<li>Objective Structure<\/li>\n<li><i>Mapping<\/i> your story<\/li>\n<li>A List of Questions to Refine a Story<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Designing Panels &amp; Pages<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Clarity &amp; Composition<\/li>\n<li>Flow &amp; Impact<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of Steranko\u2019s <i>Ideal Page<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I taught this course at Laguna College of Art and Design to talented students who later became professsionals. This is the same material boiled down into a crash-course workshop. It is not merely lecture. It includes exercises to help you develop your project, so show up with an idea in mind.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Materials:<\/h5>\n<p>Bring a sketchpad and a mechanical pencil or pen or some other non-messy point media. No charcoal or dusty media or anything that leaves shavings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>Note:<\/h5>\n<p>This is not a university curriculum course and you will not receive college credit for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminar Endorsements Recommendations If you have an idea that you want to turn into a comic book or a graphic novel but you&#8217;re not sure about how to craft a &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Graphic Novel Workshop\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/seminars\/novel\/#more-93\" aria-label=\"More on Graphic Novel Workshop\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19162,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/19162"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshallart.com\/HOME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}