Schools in the EDSA-Ortigas consortium (EDSOR). Which includes La Salle, ICA, Poveda, Xavier (my alma mater) began their Peace Camp today, they invited Elbert Or and myself to hold a workshop on comics. Friend Vin Simbulan was invited to give a workshop on short story writing. Other artists were invited as well to discuss other arts.
25% of the class was left-handed. Approximately there was equal number of guys and girls. A fair number of the ladies were quite good, trumping the number of promising gents.
Elbert discussed the nature of comics and synaesthesia, and I discussed script breakdowns - anticipating the activity the kids would have of turning their reflections of the Peace Camp activities into comics. They began planning and illustrating at around 2:20PM and finished at 4:00PM.
I wish there was more time, but even then - learning how to illustrate comics doesn’t merely take a day even if teaching it can.
We received a cool EDSOR Tee and the appreciation of everyone involved. Poveda will be hosting it next year. Perhaps we’ll hear from them then.
