GNS Anthology Project

We have around 15ish copies of the anthology printed out!  More copies will be on the way, as soon as we figure out a printing problem that has arisen…

Pictures will be posted to the Web site once Jeff sets up the gallery.

Our Meetings

5/23: Nils Omar presentation – Wednesday in Savery 156 from 5:00PM to 6:15PM

5/31: Party!  Free Manga Paper Day - Thursday in Savery 168 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM

Convention Pre-Registration

Sakura-Con is a very popular anime convention.  It offers discounts to people who sign up early, depending on the date:

$35 effective starting 4-16-2012
$40 effective starting 6-4-2012
$45 effective starting 9-3-2012
$50 effective starting 12-3-2012
$55 effective starting 3-4-2013
$60 at the door

We’ll post more convention registration info as other conventions approach.

Congratulations to our new 2012-2013 GNS officers!  Here they are:

• Win – President
• Joseph Swan – Secretary
• Diou Shi – Public Relations Officer

Each candidate had to give a brief speech, followed by some grueling questions from the audience about how they would handle the club if elected.  In general, their answers were impressive — or at least really funny!  With them in charge, GNS should certainly be interesting next year!

In this activity, we learned about the defining expressive characteristics of comic characters — with an emphasis on their facial expressions.
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Today, people stood frozen in awkward positions for sixty seconds while we drew them! This Comic Improvisation activity helps you focus on the defining features of a pose rather than its minute details. When drawing comics, it’s very important to convey poses as clearly as possible, omitting details for the sake of clarity. The results of this activity could be used in a storyboard for a comic.

Emerald City ComiCon and Sakura-Con are major comics conventions in Seattle, WA.  You can meet famous (and not-so-famous) artists, check out cool exhibitions, and participate in gaming tournaments! At this meeting, we discussed some tips, information, and pricing for both events.
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• 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

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.