We just had another rewarding guest session! Niloufer Wadia, an illustrator and Urban Sketcher, covered so much ground in one short hour with my creative writing programme – you can guess what I mean from the picture above! From showing us different kinds of zines to telling us about storyboarding, she led us through the process of illustrating our works, choosing what to draw and helping us understand how to draw it.
The zines Niloufer showed us to begin with were lovely. Even though we’re going to be creating an e-zine at my writing programme, exploring form and shape was fun! Moving towards helping us sketch on our own, she shared some limericks with us and then proceeded to show us how we could illustrate them. She began with a storyboard with very basic line drawings, and together, we came up with ideas of how to illustrate the set of limericks she chose.
I also love it when guest speakers mention the importance of copyright. Even as we began to read the limericks, Niloufer paused to tell us about copyright, reminding us that even if we cannot find the name of the creator online, stuff on the internet is not ours to use as we wish!
Though there were a lot of takeaways from today’s session, if I had to choose one point I’d like to share, it would be the last bit of advice Niloufer shared with us. When you have an idea, don’t draw immediately. Think about how you can make it more – more ridiculous, warmer, more dramatic. And then, begin to draw.
It’s great advice!
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