Cartooning With Mike Valentine - Summer Class

This cartooning course is for beginner and intermediate students. The course will cover how to draw cartoon heads, expressions, poses, action which will lead up to the students drawing their own original comic strips. Super hero comics will also be covered, as well as, how animation is done. Great fun!

Biography: Mike Valentine is a professional cartoonist and illustrator. His work has appeared in The Connecticut Post, Trumbull Times and numerous other newspapers and magazines. Mike attended Paier College of art, and Fairfield University. Mr. Valentine worked for Disney, and has had several of his newspaper comic strips published. He has worked on a number of "Batman" and "Superman" comic books, for DC comics. He has done advertising cartoons for newspaper and magazine ads, brochures, and t-shirt designs, among other promotional products. Mike has taught cartooning throughout the state of Connecticut, as well as Orlando, Florida. Mike does oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, mural painter and other fine arts. Mike does caricatures at parties, conventions, and other private and corporate events in addition; he works with video clay animation.

Ages:8 - 13.
Sessions:5
Cost:Members $75 / Non-Members $90.
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