Thursday, March 15, 2012

Journal

For those who don't know
I write a weekly column over at The Comics Journal.

Please check it out every Sunday.

If there is anyone interested in doing a scene report
about their local comic book scene - please email me.

Thanks.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Course update




For anyone still following along -

My "main course" - the 8 week correspondence course for comic book makers is going on now and going strong - we are in our second week. Great work so far from all involved. Very gratifying.

I have spots open for the FIGURE / LANDSCAPE DRAWING INTENSIVE


April 23rd - 1 week course -
Landscape / Figure drawing intensive. 100$

Please see this post for application details.

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Also, for anyone who is interested in taking the next "main course" that I offer - please email me about possible dates in the future that may work for you. I am trying to line up a summer schedule. Thanks!

Frank Santoro
capneasyATgmailDOTcom

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Monday, February 6, 2012

Santoro Correspondence Course - Spring 2012 update

2012 spring course schedule

MAIN 8 WEEK COURSE IS UNDERWAY - new full course in the summer. Stay tuned!

This is what is happening now:

April 23rd - 1 week course - Landscape / Figure drawing intensive. 100$

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If you are serious about the full course - please email me capneasyATgmailDOTcom - and I will send you an invite to the private course blog that exists for the course that is just now wrapping up. You can see for yourself what it is all about!

OPEN APPLICATION. NO DEADLINE.


Classes are limited to 10 students.

Application guidelines:

-3 figure drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-3 landscape drawings done on 3 x 5 index cards

-email me jpgs - not too big - by APRIL 1 -

capneasyATgmailDOTcom


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Overseas students are welcome. Last course had two Brits and two Aussies. I can understand French pretty well too.

Payment plans are available. I will work with you. Take the course. It is worth it!

Who the hell am I? I’ve been drawing comics since 1988 – and writing about comics since 1995. I’ve taught drawing at Parsons. My work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York and at the Fumetto comics festival in Switzerland. I have worked as an assistant to fine arts painters such as Francesco Clemente, Dorothea Rockburne and Gary Panter. Many of my paintings are in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger. My comic Storeyville is, allegedly, one of Chris Ware’s favorites. I’ve collaborated with Ben Jones. I was in a drawing contest against the French master Blutch – and it was deemed a tie! I have appeared in two volumes of Kramers Ergot. I am working with Dash Shaw on an animation project. I worked for the silkscreen wizard Frank Kozik. I am friends with Yuichi Yokoyama. I got into a yelling match with Brian Chippendale because I’m against photo-referencing. Jaime Hernandez taught me where all the freeways meet in Los Angeles.

You will never meet someone as enthusiastic about the form as little ol' me. And I will share that enthusiasm with you and make you a better cartoonist. I'm a great coach. Just ask the girls roller derby team I coach in New Mexico.

Sunday, February 5, 2012