Comic Workshop with Isabel Greenberg

Today I attended a talk with guest speaker Isabel Greenberg who is a comic illustrator and writer. I really admire her work as her stories and characters have a way of pulling you in. She gave us loads of great advice on how to gain more exposure after graduating from uni, and overall it was just a good experience hearing from somebody who isn't that far off from where we are.
   Afterwards, we had a "Flash workshop" where we had to create our own comics. The first part, as a practise run, we were given 5 minutes only! to draw a comic based on a popular story of our choice (can be film, book, TV series etc.) using only three panels and a brush and ink as materials. This was very exciting and hardly gave us time to think, which in a way was a good thing.
   I just pulled The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe from the top of my head and here is what was produced:

Selina Quach The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe comic 

Thankfully, they could guess what it was!
We were then given 1 hour for the real thing. As I'm doing the Snow Queen for my project, I thought this was a good chance to create some thumbnail ideas for illustrations that could be used in my final book.

Selina Quach, The Snow Queen Page 1

Selina Quach The Snow Queen Page 2

Selina Quach The Snow Queen Page 3

Selina Quach The Snow Queen Page 4

Some of the compositions I felt could have been improved but as it was very rushed I couldn't have expected any better really. Kai getting the shard in his eye for example could be depicted with an up close of his eye.

All in all this was a very fun activity to do, and further made me realise that sometimes the best illustrations come out of the ones where you think less, and I also actually really enjoyed using the quick brush effect. I will be trying this quick effect in my project.