Marcus Badgley Design: Cartooning Camp for Kids



This summertime camp is geared towards children with an inclination towards drawing and storytelling who want to improve their skills and combine them to create cartoons,comics and have some good old-fashioned fun. Children will be introduced drawing fundamentals geared towards creating fluid and expressive characters. In addition each day will focus on one or two facets of cartooning that will conclude with each child creating a personal finished cartoon (Session 1 will be just in time for Father's Day). The camp will be nurturing and cooperative with the excercises based on traditional drawing techniques that will improve a childs natural drawing ability. An organic snack will be provided during break mid-way through each day. Session 1: June 12 - 16 Session 2: June 19 - 23 Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm Ages: 8 - 12 (give or take) Class Size: 12 maximum Cost: $225 per session / $425 for both sessions Where: 269 Virginia Ave, Sebastopol This is a private residence near the center of downtown Sebastopol. Our house is cool in the summer and we'll be drawing indoors and in the shaded courtyard. • Art supplies are included! • • Yummy organic snacks provided! • • Possible appearance by Jadam Clown • For more information or to enroll a budding cartoonist (or a cartooning buddhist) call: 707.799.9903		Marcus Badgley has been cartooning since he was knee high to a grasshopper. Slightly larger now, he currently runs Marcus Badgley Design in Santa Rosa, a boutique design and iillustration studio with clients across the country. Mr. Badgley's interest in cartooning began at a very young age and was greatly influenced by French comics, such as Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke. He is currently working on a graphic novel titled Project U, which is a series of intertwinning stories spanning several hundred years on a plethora of disparate planets, including Earth.

Session 1: June 12 - 16 The focus will be on the fundamentals from basic character design and facial expressions to lettering and word bubbles in order to create their own character(s) with the goal of creating a one-panel cartoon. Topics covered: Drawing and Building a Character Gesture Drawing Thumbnails Facial Expressions Hands and Feet Movement, Action Lines, Word Bubbles, etc. Lettering Drawing Large	Session 2: June 19 - 23 In Session 2 kids will develop their character(s) by focusing on specific poses and expressions, strengthen their drawing and lettering and will finish by creating a multi-frame comic strip Topics covered: Story Development Taking the Character Further Backgrounds and Foregrounds Perspective Composition Coloring & Shading Putting together the Cartoon Strip