Abstract
Grids and Gestures is an exercise intended to offer participants insight into a comics maker’s decision-making process for composing the entire page through the hands-on activity of making an abstract comic. It requires no prior drawing experience and serves to help reexamine what it means to draw. In addition to a description of how to proceed with the exercise, this piece also includes conceptual grounding in the form of a brief theoretical discussion of the ways comics convey meaning as well as personal notes on the development of the exercise and how it has been used.
Recommended Citation
Sousanis, Nick
(2015)
"Grids and Gestures: A Comics Making Exercise,"
SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education: Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss1/8
Examples of the exercise to accompany article
SousanisGridssamples.pdf (1239 kB)
Sample comics pages to accompany exercise
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