Sketching in Practice Symposium

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  • Redrawing the Future, One Poster at a Time

    A Radical History Poster Project

    Draw the world you want to see.

     That is the inspiration behind the Graphic History Collective’s radical history poster project.

    Each poster tells the story of a group whose struggles in Canada—from Caribbean caregivers in the 1900s to present day Yukon First Nations—have been largely ignored.

    According to the Collective, the goal of creating them is to create accessible and informative representations that celebrate change makers of the past—to fuel change makers of today.  The ultimately goal: to help everyone “dream of a better world.”

    Learn how to create your own radical history poster with the Collective’s Kara Sievewright  and Robin Folvik at Sketching in Practice.  

  • Taking it to the Streets: Vjeko Sager on the power of daily drawing adventures

    Vjeko Sager
    Vjeko SagerNever stop failing. Never stop seeing things in new ways. And never stop creating.

    Those are the words that Emily Carr University lecturer and internationally celebrated artist Vjeko Sager lives by through his practice of Nomadic sketching–which sees him packing up his drawing tools, a camera, and wandering through the city on a daily basis.

    “The most important aspect of sketching anywhere & everywhere is to stimulate the senses and expand the palette of perceptions. New places energize and channel creative energy that transforms the way we think. Most things are discovered by “chance”, which is nothing but an apparently insignificant impulse in the environment.”

    Vjeko Sager

    Sager explains that the drawing he creates are not just expressions of imagination, but of a universality that he hopes can act as an anecdote to some of society’s most troubling divisions.

    “As drawing stands at the core of every art, it can turn ideas into actions. In this sense, universality comes alive via drawing and what else can better declare our presence on this planet, but a simple line which proves that we exist.”

    Learn more about Nomadic sketching and it’s potential to impact the world at Sager’s SkIP session.

  • Going Wordless: stef lenk on creating visual-based narratives

    Stef Lenk

    Stef Lenk

    Wordless graphic novels are becoming an increasingly popular genre—for good reason.

    As described by stef lenk, creating narratives that rely solely on visual metaphors “can open up a story to create more universal significance to audiences.”

    But how does limiting a story to images impact its interpretation? What is lost? What is gained? And what do artist-authors need to keep in mind when creating them?

    Lenk is the the author of eight picture books for children and adults and her illustrations have appeared in Broken Pencil magazine and Brick Literary Journal. She completed a Master of Science from the University of Dundee Scotland and now works at the Freie University in Berlin for the PathoGraphics project, a research project examining aesthetics in comics and illness narratives.

    Check out her SkIP presentation to explore what it means to tell a visual-only story and learn tips to help you make your own.