Comics People 020 - "How to draw like a kid"

[@dachitavartkiladze8636]

Great video

[@aroseart78]

You guys are awesome for promoting kids’ art.

[@RandomAccessDreams]

Guys, guys, the Gary Larson "childhood drawings" were drawn as an adult, c'mon. He's making jokes about being imprisoned in his bedroom and being chained up under the table during dinner, c'mon.

[@CacophoniesArtTV]

nice! something on heta uma would be cool too

[@zachvenice]

I'm still watching, so I'm not sure if you guys bring up the 'naive' styles of Robert Nava or Johnny Ryan.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

Eyes aren't funny. That's a wild tip! I'm going to start erasing.

[@PacMaster2012]

In the near future I'm gonna have some students make an anthology series, does anybody have any tips? I'm particularly interested in things like publishing the kids works (not for profit of course), but does anyone know if you need parent sign off for a thing like that?

[@sarahhirsch8919]

I used to run a comic book club at my school and we never needed parental permission to print anything. My district has a grant program that I submitted a grant to for the cost of publishing. This year I've got a couple of kids interested in making picture books and comics and I'm just going to go for 8.5 x 11 and 5.5 x 8.5 printing sizes and printing at school. Experimenting with old school fan book binding to see if it's a viable option for kids to make hard cover books (so far so good on the actual binding of the pages, but I haven't gotten around to making a hard cover to attach to the block of pages yet). You could also possibly do crowdfunding through donors choose or gofundme for printing costs.

[@sarahhirsch8919]

Back in the day when it didn't cost an arm and a leg, we'd also get a table at the big local comic convention and the kids would do all of the setup and breakdown. Lots of work (at times getting completed comics back was like pulling teeth), but it was also a lot of fun.

[@sarahhirsch8919]

YT isn't letting me post a link in the comments to the work my kiddos did, but if you're interested in seeing it, lemme know.

[@PacMaster2012]

@@sarahhirsch8919 thank you so much for all advise! I think crowdfunding is probably the best route for this project. I'd love to see some of your students work!

[@sarahhirsch8919]

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