Get Learned on Creeper Methods + Featured Artist Veronika Rossi

UPCOMING WORKSHOP

Intro to Creeper Methods and Action Sketching
Saturday, May 19th, 7-9:30pm

What is creeping?  Action Sketching?  How does this quick capture method improve your drawing skills and broaden your comics storytelling?  Join the DC Creepers for this open & informative session that will get you blazing through drawings with joyful scribbling.  Exchange feedback with the host and other participants on your drawing approach! Practice drawing people and scenes from life in advance of the session so you are warmed up and ready to go.

Location:
DWIGHTMESS
Cartooning & Comic Arts
805 Silver Spring Ave. [entrance on Ripley Street]
Silver Spring, MD 20912

Featured Artist: Veronika Rossi

DWIGHTMESS: Your work is so full of delight; in your bio you say your stories are about everyday life and how that which is extraordinary can be found within the mundane. Can you tell us a little bit more about what happens in your stories? What type of 'everyday' conflicts/scenarios are you interested in? How do you think the moments in your stories connect to your life, if at all? What would you want a reader of your work to think or feel by engaging with your work?

Rossi: Nearly my entire practice is inspired by how I grew up and those experiences I had as a kid. I have a pretty large family, so I spent most weekends playing with my siblings and cousins outside without a care in the world. I really yearn for those simpler times, especially right now as an adult about to graduate from college. My way of being able to relive those times again, but with the perspective and experience I have now as a 24-year old, is telling stories about characters my age and focusing on these everyday happenings. That said, I still want there to be elements of adulthood present. As my “Full-Moon Inn” series continues, I’m delving more and more into these themes. I’m planning the next few comics right now and so far there’s going to be learning to navigate adult romantic relationships, processing parental relationships (or lack thereof), and figuring out how to build a supportive community for yourself. I’m also trying to address these situations while keeping the tone a bit lighter and humorous, so it’ll be interesting to find a balance of the two as I continue planning, haha. 

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DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts Compound is a new gallery/workshop/illustration studio in downtown Silver Spring, MD embracing traditional & independent comics art alongside more experimental formats for cartooning and bookmaking, including non-publication-based formats, drawing, sculpture, multimedia, and animation. Free to apply »

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