Expressing the Self in Comics with Yasmeen Abedifard — Apr 26
An intro to comics, character building, and self-expression. Open to everyone with a desire to draw!
An intro to comics, character building, and self-expression. Open to everyone with a desire to draw!
An intro to comics, character building, and self-expression. Open to everyone with a desire to draw!
Dates: April 26, 2025
Times: 12-3pm
Level: All levels
Workshop Description:
Expressing the Self in Comics encourages those unfamiliar with comics to dip their feet into character building and expressing themselves through the medium of comics.
In this 3-hour workshop, Yasmeen will guide you in identifying an emotion that can be materialized and expressed through a character outside of their own experience. You will come out of the workshop with a character and a short comic.
You're welcome to bring your tablet too. Open to all levels with a desire to draw! No extensive artistic or creative skill is needed, just a desire to express yourself.
About the Instructor:
Yasmeen Abedifard (b. 1996) is an Iranian-American, queer artist born in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently based in Oakland, CA, USA. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she received the Charles Baskerville Painting Award. Her work is centered around storytelling mediums, including comics, illustrations, and animation. She is currently teaching in the Comics BFA program at The California College of the Arts (CCA). Her work has been featured in various spaces, such as the SF Art Book Fair, 2727 California, Rubenstein Arts Center, Jack Hanley Gallery, and Soft Screen, and has received various accolades, including the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Minicomic for Death Bloom in 2023. She has taught comic workshops at Kala Art Institute, Sequential Artists Workshop, and Black Mountain Institute. She has created several published comics, such as When to Pick a Pomegranate (pub. Silver Sprocket), Death Bloom (pub. Lucky Pocket), and Burnt (pub. Wiggle Bird Mailing Club). She is also part of a comics collective called D.R.Y. with her peers, Daniel Zhou and Raul Higuera, aimed at fostering community and highlighting the Bay Area comics scene.
Required Materials:
- Bring all materials you would sketch with: your sketchbook
- pencils, markers, colored pencils, pens, etc.; and/or a digital drawing tablet, such as a iPad with Apple Pencil or stylus