KOCH, MICHAEL D. :: CLASS NOTES from JOHN BYRNE ART SEMINAR | Creation Con, Boston - March 5, 1983

Notes from the John Byrne Art Seminar - Creation Con, Boston, March 5, 1983 (PART 1 of 8)

Artists: John Byrne () , Michael D. Koch (Writer)

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Title:	Notes from the John Byrne Art Seminar - Creation Con, Boston, March 5, 1983 (PART 1 of 8)
Artist:	John Byrne ()
Artist:	Michael D. Koch (Writer)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	7/1/2022
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John Byrne Drawing Art Seminar Class Notes, 1983

(PART 1)

note: these notes are recopied c.1983 notes from my messy notes in class (added blue in photoshop here to help see facts better)
See originals and Creation Con materials from JB Art Seminar in Additional Images area

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Covered in notes:

� CLARITY in comics
� DIFFERENCES between drawing Men & Women in comics

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3 most important thing in drawing comics
Clarity
Clarity
Clarity

Differences between drawing men & women's faces:

(men) Hair is coarser (women) Hair is fluffier
(men) Eyes smaller (women) Eyes wider
(men) Nose angular (women) Nose softer
(men) Eyebrows heavier (women) Eyesbrows thinner
(men) Face angular (women) Face rounder, smoother
(men) Features rougher (women) Features smoother
(men) No upper lip (women) Fuller Lips

Differences between drawing men & women's collarbones (clavicles):
(men) Collar bone is angular (women) Collar bone is straighter

Differences between drawing men & women's ribcages:
(men) Rib Cage is wider (women) Rib Cage is narrower

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ABOUT THE CLASS NOTES & JOHN BYRNE ART SEMINAR

My class notes from master comic artist and storyteller John Byrne. maybe his only art seminar that I know of.

Recall that most people in my class were pretty young. It was from an 1 or 2 hour class that John gave in the Park Plaza hotel or Parker House Hotel (it's a while back) after that day's Creation Con. I was in high school and saved up for weeks from my newspaper delivery job to take this. This was a result of the meticulous and recopied notes habit that I used in high school to pass my classes to make up for my lack of natural smarts.

So I'm glad that I can share the benefits & timing of that process here on CAF (instead of Tumblr where they were before for many years) John was at his absolute peak as an artist during this time (Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight) and he shared some of his secrets, process & influences with us aspiring artists.

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