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Write and Draw Your Own Comics (ages 6-8)

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Calling young artists and comic fans! Spend a fun-filled week learning all about basic comic creation and how you can tell fun and exciting stories using visual storytelling. Join in on lively group conversations, share your comic ideas with your fellow campers, spend time practicing with sketching exercises, and experiment with cool storyboarding ideas. Through hands-on practice you will learn to draw people, animals, monsters, or a character of your own design! You will also learn about page layout, composition, how to add depth to your drawings, and how to add words and text to each comic frame. 

During camp you will create your own short, penciled, inked, and lettered comic pages to keep. You will go home with your new art supplies, your sketchbook full of ideas and practice sketches, and newfound skills and enthusiasm for telling stories through comic art.

No experience necessary and all art skill levels are welcome.

Class Details

5 Session(s)
Weekly - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Location
Aptos Main Campus

Instructor
Joel Smith 

 

Notice

Please read:  Before bringing your child to camp, please read through this list. Following these steps will help us assure that your child is safe, healthy, and has tons of fun at camp!

  • Need help finding your child’s classroom? Campus maps are available here.
      • Always send your child with a snack and a drink. Food = mood, and we want campers to be at their best! No food is available on campus.
      • Please be sure you have notified us of any behavioral or medical conditions we need to be aware of to help your child have a successful week at camp.
      • Campers need to be signed out every day by the individuals who have been approved by parent or legal guardian to pick them up, and are required to show a photo ID every day.
      • In order to protect the privacy and security of all minors on our campus, photographs by parents and family members in class are not permitted. Instructors and Extension staff often take photos and may share them with campers’ families via email once camp has concluded. Campers’ name tags will be removed for these photographs to respect and protect privacy. Please contact the Extension office directly if you do not want your child to be included in any photographs taken by our staff.
      • Cell phones or hand held games may not be used during camps.
      • Campers are not permitted to use the vending machines during camps.

    Fee: 

    $250.00

    Materials Fee:

     $38.00


    Schedule Information

    Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
    7/21/2025 - 7/25/2025 Weekly - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM Aptos, Aptos Main Campus  Map, Room: 2100B Joel Smith 

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    Write and Draw Your Own Comics (ages 6-8)
    ID: 14392

    07/21/25 - 07/25/25
    Weekly - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
    5 sessions.

    Location
    Aptos Main Campus

    Instructor
    Joel Smith