Practice a few of comic artist Lynda Barry's drawing exercises at home.
Draw while listening to music, practice a series of timed drawings, and turn a single sheet of paper into up to 16 folded comic panels. Click here to get started: PDF pages from Syllabus.
These exercises are excerpted from Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry and published by Drawn and Quarterly. Copyright (c) 2014 by Lynda Barry. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Click here to listen to Barry's Spotify playlist while you draw: Drawing Time Juke Box
Here's another timely playlist, curated and updated weekly by The National's Matt Berninger: Social Distancing Distortion
Check out some of the books about comics and comic artists available through Hoopla
Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box (ebook)
Creating Comics! (ebook)
Drawing Comics Lab (ebook)
Encyclopedia of Black Comics (ebook)
How to Draw Comics by Ilya (ebook)
Stream some documentaries on Comics and Comic Artists using Kanopy
Comic Book Confidential (movie)
Comix: Beyond The Pages (movie)
Dear Mr. Watterson: The Era of Calvin and Hobbs (movie)
Funny Ladies: A Portrait of Women Cartoonists (movie)
White Scripts and Black Supermen (movie)
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