jerzydrozd
Jerzy Drozd
Cartoonist and teaching artist. I make a comic called Boulder and Fleet: Adventurers for Hire. I also make a bunch of podcasts about making comics.
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This November marks the second annual Art Soundoff event instigated by my pal Rob Stenzinger and myself. Like Inktober, participation is super simple: Record a 5-10 minute journal reflection on your art day Share it on whatever social media you use and be sure to include the #artsoundoff tag Pos…
Happy to help in any way I can. I've been teaching comics classes in Ann Arbor, MI for 8 years now, the primary reason being that the more kids we get making comics, the more kids will fall in love with the medium, which leads to more people reading and buying comics! So the more of us who get out…
Another way to build your case for a comics project is highlighting that reading and making comics has been proven to boost key literacy skills such as Prediction, Inferencing, and Fluency. I led a 10-week series of visits to some Detroit public schools (some of which didn't have any kind of art cla…
Great walkthrough, and I'm so glad you're sharing tips like this. We often see tips on proper balloon usage, like the latest creator's guide or Nate Piekos' 10 Mistakes Made by Amateur Letterers, which are useful guides for understanding the mechanics of creating word balloons, but seldom do we see …
I teach comics classes in Ann Arbor, MI, and we make a ton of mini-comics in class. Not only are they fun to do, but the implied limitations in length makes it a much more manageable project than an ongoing webcomic. You get the positive feedback of "finishing a thing" in a relatively shorter time, …