As result of the contribution between Santiago de Compostela's Culture Department and IES San Clemente, students who took part in Pek #1 project, develop a Workshop teaching how to use GIMP software to paint comic strips.
Prepared by:
Francisco Alonso Rodríguez (teaching)
María Teresa Balo Martínez
David Garcia-Santamarina Liñeira
Alberto Rey Rey (teaching)
Here, you can download tree posters of this event:
Apart from Desktop Publishing software like Scribus, the tool that we used to create Pek #1, there are several specific applications for comic creation, that work really well.
We are testing Comic Life, that makes easier comic creation.
Do you want to see some files made with this tool? These are letters that Maria Sourgiadaki (the scriptwriter and a very demanding boss, at the same time than nice ...
Procedure (let's see how things have progressed for Pek!)
Firstly, each school created its own script, based on a flea that arrives in the city where the school is and once there, something funny happens to him. We had five imaginative scriptwriters that started this project.
Then, our five great cartoonists converted the scripts into comic pages, drawn with black ink in a template. We didn't care about different drawing styles (we love differences ...
When I opened it, I stayed speechless for a while, awed, overwhelmed by the joy of holding in my hands the real copies of Pek's magazine. It was such a different feeling, compared with seeing the result of our work on a pc's screen!
Creation is a divine gift, a power to transform an abstract idea into something real.
How many people got involved in this task How many hours invested How many steps, how many parts connected into a chain ...
Do you want to see how an idea becomes reality, starting from a dot and then expanding to an illustrated comic?
Here you are!
The adventures of a tiny flea, through brainstorming, pencils, templates, scanners, digital files, colors, downloading and revisions. The etwinning experience that Pek offered us is unique.
This is the result of our work, the fantastic comic magazine Pek, the Traveller Flea #1!
