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Tom Hart is a professional cartoonist, digital artist, animator with over 10 years teaching experience at School of Visual Arts, Parsons, Education Alliance, Young Audiences, numerous places across the country and all over New York City.
He is the creator of Hutch Owen graphic novels and comic strips, critically acclaimed by The Comics Journal, Time.com, Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal.
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ADULT TEACHING |
I have taught classes to hundreds and hundreds of students of all ages, especially college-age and older. Read some testimonials here.
Now I've started my own school so if you want to study with me, you have to come to Gainesville, Florida, or find me online. |
PERSONAL TUTORING |
Comic and manga tutoring with Tom Hart, for ages 10-100. Any level. No knowledge of drawing necessary, just a drive to figure it all out and tell stories.
Recent adult students have said
- "Our lessons are SO great!
- "you're such a great teacher!"
And the mom of a 13 year old student says,
- "it was a great experience for him and he really learned a lot-- I think he even surprised himself."
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WORKSHOPS |
LIBRARY WORKSHOPS!
I've given dozens of single session 2-3 hours Manga workshops at libraries all around New York and Connecticut (usually with an assistant.) We provide a brief overview and context, demonstrate professional tools and encourage the students to develop their own ideas. In many wokshops, students can take home their supplies for later play and exploration. We can also retool Manga workshop into a basic comics workshop. Many references. E-mail me: hutchowen [ at ] gmail.com
Click here to see pics of a recent workshop, in Durham, CT. |
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I'm reminded of a comment from a interview with a Walt Kelly, who stated (somewhat adamantly): "You have to be articulate!"
In my teaching, I try to focus on learning the craft of storytelling as a way of being articulate. Of giving yourself the largest vocabulary possible, but also to give you a deep understanding of how to maneuver, access and control that vocabulary.
More importantly, in learning that vocabulary, we often learn what it is we WANT TO SAY. By working deeply and by paying attention, our own unthought thoughts and hidden aspects of our emotional narrative can reveal themselves. In other words, what I try to teach is discovering what it is you want to say and how to best say it. Through exercises and personal connection, I hope to bring you to a new place with your own ideas and inspiration, while giving you the tools to connect with your readers.
My students over the course of my 7 years of teaching continually thank me for helping them learn to access their creative fire, but also to organize it. For giving them the ability to literally find new life on the page, and the tools to keep it alive and find purchase in the mind of a reader.
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A former student's blog entry about the class here. |
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Archive of middle school teaching ideas: Storyark
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Learning from ANIMATION
Crossing into an understanding of how animation works is often extremely helpful for some, and less so for others. Some things which are aggressively pursued in animation can help static comic artists such as:
- thumbnailing and figure drawing, sense of weight
- consistency of characters
- understanding how things move, land, float, fly, run
- general composition
I recommend the following links
AnimationMeat.com - A storehouse of great animation links.
Another amazing site is John K's blog. John (I forget his real last name) was the guy behind Ren and Stimpy and he's been an extremely outgoing blogger, teacher and dispenser of key information about drawing and animating well. His blog is here: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/
and worth browsing at length. It's simply too good to point to specific posts. God bless John K!
Lastly, Preston Blair is a sort of godfather of animation. Just googling for images of his produced a bounty from his books:
http://images.google.com/images?q=preston+blaiir
But you should buy his books! |
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e mail: hutchowen [ at ] gmail.com |
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