latitude festival with we are words and pictures
A very quick comic about Latitude while it’s all still fresh in my memory.
I had a wonderful weekend with the We Are Words + Pictures gang. Go visit the websites of Edward Ross, Philippa Rice, Anne Holiday and Matthew Sheret right now if you haven’t come across them already. Talented people. And great festival companions.
A massive thank you to you if you dropped by our tent and joined in with the drawing. It was such a wonderful weekend and so inspiring to see everyone throw themselves into creating comics with complete abandon. The WAWAP site will hopefully have a bunch of pics up for perusal with a proper blog about it soon (Update: It’s now online here).
In the meantime, here are some extra bonus sketches. To start with – some drawings I did during the workshops. Most of my drawings from the weekend were sold during a mini-exhibition we held at the end but here are the remaining images…
Actually… a brief explanation: One of the ways in which we tried to get everyone started with an activity was to ask people to draw a comic or illustration based on their experiences of the festival or previous festivals they’ve been to. We wrote simple prompts and provided them to people if they looked lost. Here, by means of providing an example, was my first one…
And another…
This one was just a doodle during the last stretch of Sunday…
Outside of the workshops, I didn’t get much of a chance to sketch. But here’s a quick one of a couple in the literary tent…
And a brief sketch of some people at a nearby bench…
Finally… a few photos! Here’s us setting up and a pic of Anne and Philippa…
A couple of shots of the workshops in full swing (this is during the quieter moments when we could actually take photos)…
Here’s Matt with a hand-made speech balloon (did I mention we had customisable speech balloons so you could star in your own photo-comic?!) and a small section of the make-shift exhibition we had at the end…
Before I go, just a quick mention to say that if you make comics or are interested in promoting comics at all – make sure you get in touch with the WAWAP team immediately. They’re always looking for new artists to work with and new events to organise. Anything to help spread the joy of making and reading comics. So email them right now if you want to help!
Wow…! Looks like a special weekend. Good work.
Looks awesomesauce. Well done, guys!
[...] we did went really well! It was a good time! Tom Humberstone has made a comic all about it so go and have a look at that and keep an eye out for Colin and Pauline making an appearance in some of the photos! └ [...]
[...] After we got a mention in What’s On Stage‘s review of Latitude and Tom and Edward both wrote up their experiences, we asked Anne Holiday to write a few words about the [...]
Oo now that looks fun! I love the cartoon about tired feet. Observational comedy in comics sounds like a great way of trying out material! :)
Looks great! The tent looks so cool and it’s great to hear it went down well. Brilliant idea.
Great write up Tom! I’m well pleased to have been drawn by you!
[...] Image taken from Tom Humberstone’s blog. [...]
[...] on July 24, 2010 We Are Words + Pictures had a pretty awesome time at Latitude. Tom has made a comic about it which is far more appropriate seeing as we’re supposed to be promoting comics and all, so I [...]