Friday Night Drawing

Yasmeen Abedifard hosted the SAW Friday Night Drawing this week. The task was to pick an emotion, then find something that symbolizes that and make a character out of it. Then make a four panel comic out of it.

2022-11-11

4-panel comic. First create an avatar…draw it a couple times to work out the kinks. Suggested to start with the first panel with your avatar saying, “Here I am feeling like ____”.

SAW Friday Night Drawing session, hosted by Lawrence Lindell.

The challenge was to draw 8 layouts (just a small sketch of each), choose two, and draw a two-page comic using those layouts. He specifically said these are the only rules!

I arrived late, so I only did one layout. I also combined this with my daily drawing, with the word of the day being safari.

Fun project.

SAW Friday Night Drawing session, hosted by Beth Trembly.

The challenge was to draw a four panel comic that dealt with your fear.

1. The first panel should be a drawing of something you’ve always been afraid of.
2. Next draw you taking on the mask of the thing you fear.
3. Then draw yourself using that fear.
4. Then so what? What happens as a consequence of being the thing you fear?

I didn’t follow this idea very strictly. This is what I ended up with:

1. With police as a metaphor, I drew a fear of cruelty found in an nameless institution.
2. Then you put on the mask of cruelty.
3. Then causing harm with impunity.
4. Then the result of wearing that mask is simple continuation of the fear, but with you as the cause.

It seems to me that taking on a role of fear doesn’t really end in less fear, or the more common wish of a therapeutic and cathartic understanding; but instead leads to unthoughtful propagation.

These are drawings I do on Friday Night Drawing hosted by SAW, previously hosted by The Believer magazine. I have a bunch that I think are ok, and will be posting them sporadically, plus the new ones I think are ok. Stay tuned!