Drawing From Your Life
£12.00
Thursday 13th March 2025, 6.30-8.30pm
Zoom Online Workshop
Drawing from your Life: coax out your own personal stories
Led by Emma Burleigh
£12 per person
We all have a comic inside us! Sometimes we just need a little help to draw it out. In this workshop we will dip into the well of our own personal memory to find the stories waiting within. Be they silly or serious, funny or profound, or all of the above, let’s welcome in the ones that are ready to be told! Come with an open mind, and be willing to let a long-forgotten story or two bubble up to the surface.
We’ll begin by loosening up, playing with ways of combining word and image to create fresh and surprising meanings, before delving into our minds and memories to find the seeds for rich and personal story ideas. We’ll finish by watering the seeds with sharing, exercises, and tips for further development. Will this be the kernel of your comic for LDC’s online summer fair?
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Thursday 13th March 2025, 6.30-8.30pm
Zoom Online Workshop
Drawing from your Life: coax out your own personal stories
Led by Emma Burleigh
£12 per person
We all have a comic inside us! Sometimes we just need a little help to draw it out. In this workshop we will dip into the well of our own personal memory to find the stories waiting within. Be they silly or serious, funny or profound, or all of the above, let’s welcome in the ones that are ready to be told! Come with an open mind, and be willing to let a long-forgotten story or two bubble up to the surface.
We’ll begin by loosening up, playing with ways of combining word and image to create fresh and surprising meanings, before delving into our minds and memories to find the seeds for rich and personal story ideas. We’ll finish by watering the seeds with sharing, exercises, and tips for further development. Will this be the kernel of your comic for LDC’s online summer fair?
Emma Burleigh Biography
Bristol/Stroud Co-ordinator (2019 -)
Emma was the winner of the 2018 LDComics Award for best graphic novel in progress. The novel, an autobio-fictional memoir called “My Other Mother”, is based on her experience of meeting her first mother who relinquished her for adoption as a baby. She completed this 260-page long-form comic in 2023. Publication is presently on pause.
Emma has created a number of self-published zines and comics, has contributed to various comics anthologies, and has collaborated with published writers and poets in her role as a professional illustrator.
Emma is the author of two art course books, Soul Color, a ten week course on watercolour painting to cultivate creativity and mindfulness, and Earth Color, an eight week art course for nature connection. Both are published by Liminal 11 in the UK and Union Square & Co. in the USA & Canada.
Emma runs the LDComics Mentoring Programme, hosts LDC events, and offers comics workshops locally in Bristol and Stroud.
www.emmaburleigh.com
Facebook & Instagram: emmaburleighartist
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