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Sketching Figures for Comics and Manga with John Watkins-Chow

at Gaithersburg Library

Teens and tweens can join us for this fun and informative session about how to draw characters for comic books and manga!

Calling all artist and manga/comic fans! Join artist John Watkins-Chow for this workshop about what goes into sketching figures for use in comics and manga. Sketch alongside John while he talks about his process and answers your questions. 

John Watkins-Chow was born in New Jersey and ended up with three degrees from MIT. He has been doodling his whole life and has been fortunate to work in animation, comics, and sketch card art on properties such as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and a host of Marvel Comics characters including Spider-Man, the Avengers, & X-Men. Recently, his marker art has appeared on sketch cards for Upper Deck's Avengers Vs X-Men, Marvel Beginnings, Secret Wars, Avengers Skybox Metal, & DC Annual sets. Very, very occasionally, he works on his own comic, Talismen—which increasingly looks like it will be his project in retirement. During the day, John teaches high school math & physics in a private school in Rockville.

For Ages 11-17

Questions about this program? Please contact Gaithersburg Library at 240-773-9490.

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People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

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