Kutikuti’s learning materials encourage everyone to try making contemporary comics. Materials consist of three videos: each of them introduces one contemporary comic artist and one topic related to making comics. Each video ends with an assignment that summarizes the topics covered in the video.
Camera, editing: Janne Vasarainen
Skeleton: Joonas Rinta-Kanto
Animation, editing: Kaarina Uimonen
Planning, editing: Miissa Rantanen
Supported by: Kone Foundation
Kutikuti School presents: Ivanda Jansone & surrealism in comics
🟡 Exercise: Make a comic where something ordinary becomes unreal. For example, you can distort your observations, turn facts on their heads, or add a small magical tear to the story.
🟡 Tips: Trust your imagination, don’t analyze too much. Take photos of yourself as example images if necessary. Remember that you can do anything! Try and do, ideas will come! Enjoy the mistakes!
🟡 Try it: Draw a cartoon on a large piece of paper – explore how the size of the paper affects your expression.
Kutikuti School presents: Kimmo Lust & feelings in comics
🟡 Exercise: Make a comic where you concentrate on conveying a feeling. You can approach the feeling by, for example, depicting dreams and fantasies or by focusing on gestures and facial expressions. Colors, surroundings and details also matter!
🟡 Tips: Use as few words as possible: show, don’t explain. Talk about something that you find important. Observe people: what kind of gestures and facial expressions do you notice? Play with contradictions!
🟡 Try it: Draw the same scene with two different emotional states. Draw the same frame ten times and each time with different colors.
Kutikuti School presents: Tuomas Tiainen & space in comics
🟡 Exercise: Start making a comic by focusing on space: tell a story with locations and perspective, depict objects, surface materials, depth, atmosphere. Let the space change with the story.
🟡 Tips: You can draw a floor plan of the scene to help you. To find the angle, you can imagine cameras at the scene. You can break all the rules! Draw in a way that feels good to you!
🟡 Try it: How would you draw a comic without frames?