{"id":9732,"date":"2022-05-22T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:32:41","slug":"young-artists-create-personalised-comic-book-pages-at-scrf-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/2022\/05\/22\/young-artists-create-personalised-comic-book-pages-at-scrf-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Young artists create personalised comic book pages at SCRF 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Young students grabbed a unique opportunity to create their own, personalised comic book page at the 13<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Sharjah Children\u2019s Reading Festival (SCRF( 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hour-long <em>Shaping a Comic Page <\/em>session organised at SCRF\u2019s Comics Corner and led by Lebanese artist Samer Nehme taught aspiring caricaturists and illustrators aged 10 \u2013 14 how to string together thoughts into a storyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing for children at this age is to learn how to be able to channel their imagination into drawings and then eventually a story,\u201d said the architect-turned-illustrator who began the workshop with simple yet effective techniques of sketching characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDrawing is the best tool of expression for children. They must be allowed to think and visualise freely,\u201d he added, while explaining to his class the \u2018four key stages\u2019 involved in the making of a comic book page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI learned how to make characters look their part and what makes each emotion stand out,\u201d said 11-year-old Haiya Salah who portrayed \u2018fright\u2019 on the face of a young girl. \u201cSo, I understood the importance of depicting jaws wide open, and eyes rolled up. These elements in my drawing clearly depicted the state of fear and shock she was in,\u201d explained the grade 7 student of Pakistani Islamiya Higher Secondary school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Haiya\u2019s classmate Ishaal Afridi too, the experience was full of new learnings, who admitted that he was \u201ceven more inspired to flip through pages of comics to better understand this aspect,\u201d after this workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed creating my characters the most. It\u2019s different to regular drawing and it\u2019s very engaging once you get involved in your story,\u201d said Hamza Rehman, 14, a grade nine student of Westminster School, who takes inspiration for his characters from anime series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young students grabbed a unique opportunity to create their own, personalised comic book page at the 13th edition of the Sharjah Children\u2019s Reading Festival (SCRF( 2022. The hour-long Shaping a Comic Page session organised at SCRF\u2019s Comics Corner and led by Lebanese artist Samer Nehme taught aspiring caricaturists and illustrators aged 10 \u2013 14 how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9735,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions\/9735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirchmasala.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}