• 1/5 – Comic Improvisation
• 1/12 – Competitive Pictionary
• 1/19 – SNOW DAY
• 1/26 – How Manga Became Popular in North America
• 2/2 – Telephone
• 2/9 – Human Anatomy
• 2/16 – Screentones and Contours
• 2/23 – Akihibara
• 3/1 – TBA
• 3/8 – Free Manga Paper / Comic Improvisation

GNS Anthology Project

Win and Ciera presented on digital screentones, contours, and outlines.

Ciera, Miguel, and Win presented on Drawing Human Anatomy. Topics that were covered include the history of human anatomy, proportions, line of action, and relation to anime styles. Presentation concluded with gesture drawing activity.

Resources

1. http://www.posemaniacs.com/
2. http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
3. http://lovecastle.org/draw/
4. Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet (Photography by John Davis)

Here is the presentation below if you missed it!

Drawing Human Anatomy

Sorry I forgot to post this earlier!

This is Samantha’s presentation from January 26th about how manga became popular in North America! If you wanted to check it out again here it is:

Manga in the United States

Here’s the link for what happened when we tried to make a comic…

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10150492046317803&type=1

Excellent

I tried to upload the .png files, but it wouldn’t let me.  As soon as I can get this resolved, they should be up by the end of the quarter.

In case you forgot some of those awesome recommendations from Boram’s Biographical Novel Presentation, here’s her presentation!

The file was too big again for the 2 MB limit, so you can view it from here: http://www.slideshare.net/Ciera_Johl/biographical-presentation

Hello GNSers,

We will be holding our quarterly Hot Pot event this Saturday at 11:30AM!
The meeting place will be the big flag pole north of Odegaard Library and right outside Parrington Hall.
Restaurant: One of two places TBD, likely Hong Kong Bistro, depending on how many people come.

Hope to see you there!

Joseph Lee

Hello! Just posting the powerpoint on Digital Art that Win and Ciera presented on October 13th and the Perspective presentation on the November 3rd. Credits should be on the notes of each slide or on the title/end slide.

I couldn’t upload the powerpoint directly to the website, so I’ve posted it in SlideShare:
Digital Art: http://www.slideshare.net/Ciera_Johl/digital-art-presentation-10061208
3D game slide: http://www.slideshare.net/Ciera_Johl/digital-photography-3d-game

Perspective: http://www.slideshare.net/Ciera_Johl/perspective-presentation-10136869

Hello Everybody,

This is my first time posting onto the GNS Website, after a couple of trouble shootings. Eliminating all of the blog postings (1267 of them to be exact) took quite a while, but worth the effort!  Anyways, here’s the line-up for the fall quarter:

-9/27 – Introduction to GNS, Workshop Activity, Tools and Art Supplies

-10/6 – Crazy Plotlines, Officer Elections (Joe aka Yoshi)

-10/13 – Digital Art Tutorial (Win, Ciera)

-10/20 – Montage, New Flyer (Everybody)

-10/27 – Screentone Presentation (Joe)

-11/3 – Perspectives (Win)

-11/10 – Biographic Novels (Boram)

-11/17 – Meeting Someone New – Character Development Ideas (Ryan)

-11/24 – Thanksgiving Break! No Meeting.

-12/1 – How to Draw a Comic, Comic Improvisation (Joe, Win, Ciera)

-12/8 – Free Manga Paper Day, Read Comics Day, Show & Tell (Yoshi)

Hope to see you there!

-Joseph Lee