Workshops

Richy K. Chandler is a writer and illustrator (Lucy the Octopus, Adventure Time, Wallace & Gromit, Amelia the Fox), available to run comic making workshops & courses or give talks on comic making, story telling, webcomics, comic lettering, character design and more.

Richy has over six years experience at running workshops and courses, in over 130 venues, including…

• The Cartoon Museum
• Evelina Children’s Hospital
• Greenwich Theatre
• Discover Children’s Centre
• Poole Museum
• Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning
• Cultivate Festival
• Great Ormond Street Hospital

Availability and Prices

Please contact richy@tempolush.com

Alternatively visit…
https://authorsalouduk.co.uk/speaker/richy-k-chandler/
https://contactanauthor.co.uk/author/51/richy-k.-chandler

Audiences

Richy has experience teaching comic creating, story telling and illustrating to all ages.
Preschoolers, Children and Teens, Adults, including those with learning difficulties and people with physical and mental health problems.

Workshop Details

Comic Creating Workshops are fantastic for engaging children, teenagers and adults in…

• Developing narratives
• Visualising ideas
• Self-Expression
• Learning new skills
• Creative collaboration
• Fun with a sense of achievement

Richy is happy to give talks and run workshops on making comics and graphic novels, covering character design, story telling, illustration, lettering, visualising ideas and self-publishing.  He is able to plan sessions around your timetable and incorporate any themes you wish to focus on.  

To give you an idea of the content of one of Richy’s workshops, a day long session (5 hours) might go roughly like this…

    •    Introduction to what a comic creator does and Richy’s own work (with accompanying images)
    •    Warm Up Creative Games / Exercises
    •    Character Development exercises and introduction (with accompanying images)
    •    Participants develop and draw their own characters
    •    Story based games / exercises
    •    Story writing and planning
    •    Creating strip using participant’s own characters

Shorter workshops would focus on specific elements of this plan.

Richy is also experienced in and able to give talks and assemblies.

Travel:
Richy is London based but able to travel anywhere, both in the UK and internationally.

Equipment needed
For Richy:
Flip chart or white board with working marker pens, or a calibrated smart board.
Ideally a PC/projector to show a PDF images that Richy could bring on a USB stick or email over in advance.
For the participants:
A4 paper, pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners and coloured pencils.
Copies of worksheets that Richy would email over in advance.

Testimonials

“Richy has delivered a number of workshops in our school and we have found him to be a highly professional and creative individual. Richy can be relied on to deliver  enjoyable sessions and is able to engage young people from across the ability range and with diverse needs.”
Maarten Crommelin, Deputy Headteacher
Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital School

“The students really enjoyed Richy’s session, enthusiastically taking part in his workshop and listening attentively throughout. Many students were inspired by Richy to look into graphic novels and create their own after the session.”
Emma Wallace, Senior Librarian
St Benedicts School, Ealing

“We all enjoyed Richy’s fantastic visit to The Forum, Southend. The event was well structured and fully enjoyed by our young visitors. Richy engaged completely and brought fun and learning in one brilliant session.”
Elizabeth Allen, Community Development Officer
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

“Great fun for the students with well structured and engaging activities. Would love to have him back next year!”
Matthew Brockwell
St. George’s RC School, Maida Vale, London

“Richy’s easy and cheerful manner relaxed the participants so that their creative energies could be unleashed.”
Elena Jessup
W.I.P Comics