Cartooning Class Offered In June
WARSAW — Local artists that wish to explore their skills at cartooning will be excited about a new workshop being offered this June.
The course will explore creating original cartoon characters as well the business of working with licensed personalities such as Archie, Superman, and Bugs Bunny. They will also personify animals and objects. And, of course, each cartoonist needs to stage their character with emotions and figurative expressions.
Students will explore each part of the cartooning industry from editorial cartoons to game animation. They will learn to draw powerful storyboards to tell interesting stories. Each student will be guided in developing individual projects.
This workshop is for middle school through adult. Artist Don Swartzentruber who teaches drawing at Warsaw High School and Illustration at Grace College is offering this special course this June. Swartzentruber, MFA, started working as a cartoonist in secondary school. His gag cartoons frequented “The Chronicle,” and he caricatured at festivals in Delaware and area states.
In art school Swartzentruber studied with a Disney animator and worked on a cartoon with Pele the soccer star. After TV Art Directing he worked as a computer animator in Ohio. He now enjoys teaching secondary and college students. He is working on an independent sequential art project.
The class will be taught in Warsaw High School, room B116. The fee is $20 per class at $10 an hour, paid at class time or pay $70 before May 25, for all sessions. No refunds for missed classes. For more information email the instructor at [email protected]