{"id":275,"date":"2016-04-11T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:07:56","slug":"sketching-some-comics-april-11-15-with-nick-sousanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/sketching-some-comics-april-11-15-with-nick-sousanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching some comics, April 11-15 with Nick Sousanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/grids-gestures-title-page.jpg\" alt=\"Grids and Gestures activity post from Nick Sousanis. \" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grids and Gestures activity post from Nick Sousanis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the early days of comic book scholarship (yes I&#8217;m talking <a href=\"http:\/\/scottmccloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott McCloud<\/a> here folks) there has been a desire on the part of comic book creators to share the magic of their process, with an emphasis on those who &#8220;can&#8217;t draw&#8221;. Starting today, our upcoming keynote speaker will be continuing this fine tradition, with his week long &#8220;<em>collective comics-making activity<\/em>&#8221; called, <a href=\"http:\/\/spinweaveandcut.com\/grids-and-gestures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grids and Gestures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grids and Gestures is an exercise intended to offer participants insight into a comics maker\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting tie in here is <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/\">DS106<\/a>, one of the one most participatory online learning communities spawned by the internet in recent years, where this activity was cloned into the &#8220;Daily Create&#8221; assignment bank.\u00a0 Members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.ds106.us\/tdc1555\/\">DS106 community have been taking up the challenge<\/a> and producing some awesome work.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Sketching in Practice symposium<\/a>&#8221; this serves as a prime example of the hands on activities we will be exploring on June 24th. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/call-for-proposals\/\">call for proposal<\/a>s is currently OPEN and we will be making some important announcements about it by the end of the week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s3gt_translate_tooltip\" class=\"s3gt_translate_tooltip\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 10px; top: 918px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early days of comic book scholarship (yes I&#8217;m talking Scott McCloud here folks) there has been a desire on the part of comic book creators to share the magic of their process, with an emphasis on those who &#8220;can&#8217;t draw&#8221;. Starting today, our upcoming keynote speaker will be continuing this fine tradition, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,14,16],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-activity","tag-comics","tag-grids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}