Takahashi
Tsubasa
May
10–14
Year
2021
Working time: 5 days, 6 hours a day on-line × 9 parallel groups of 10–20 participants per group.
Decomposition and Re-composition of Manga
Workshop overview
This workshop is designed to achieve knowledge concerning Japanese visual culture, especially manga and other graphic arts. Focusing on the aspects of a chosen manga artwork, we will learn various conventional visual representations. Every manga graphic novel can be broken down into many elements, including characters, shapes, backgrounds, deformations, emotional expressions, etc. Through analyzing these elements, participants will get the necessary knowledge, which will allow them to produce their artworks.
Educational goal
Producing graphic artworks using motifs and representations based on Japanese manga conventions.
Materials and tools
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Papers and pencils/pens or digital tools
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Students are free to choose between analogue and digital tools for their creation
Workshop description
Schedule
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Monday
11 AM–2 PM (CEST) / 6PM–9PM (JST)
A presentation about Tsubasa Takahashi’s artwork
Introduction – What is “Manga”?
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Tuesday
11 AM–2 PM (CEST) / 6PM–9PM (JST)
Practice 1
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Wednesday
11 AM–2 PM (CEST) / 6PM–9PM (JST)
Practice 2
The interim progress report from students
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Thursday
11 AM–2 PM (CEST) / 6PM–9PM (JST)
Practice 3
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Friday
11 AM–1 PM (CEST) / 6PM–8PM (JST)
Finalization
The final review usually starts around 2 PM (CEST)
Tsubasa Takahashi
Tsubasa Takahashi - artist based in Tokyo, born in Kamakura city in 1983 (Kanagawa Prefecture). In 2006 graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University, Faculty of Education, The Department of Art and Cultural Studies, 2008 Awarded the Judge’s Prize by Fram Kitagawa at GEISAI MUSEUM #2 (Presented by Takashi Murakami). Held and joined many solo and group exhibitions, including 2012 solo exhibition at PJAIT (Poland), 2015 solo exhibition titled Boshu (a season of grain in-ear) at CASHI (Tokyo), joined the Manazuru Machine 2017 art exhibition (Kanagawa), 2019 solo exhibition Materials” at JILL D’ART GALLERY (Nagoya).
“My artworks are created by a huge number of simple lines and shapes. The tools I choose are mostly everyday items such as ballpoint pens and correction fluid. What I draw is what I see, and what I choose is what I feel in everyday life. I try to expand the definition of art by turning these ordinary things into repetitions of lines and shapes.” TT