Upcoming Events
October Half Term Workshops
Join us for some fun drawing workshops this October half-term! Places on all workshops are limited, so advance booking is essential.
Superheroes
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
14:00 15:30
With so many Marvel and DC characters on TV and at the cinema, it’s a great time for superhero fans. If you like drawing superheroes and villains, we’ll show you how to draw your own in dynamic and dramatic poses that will get your artwork noticed!
Manga
We’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork.
Make a Mini-Comic
Lots of comic creators got started by making mini-comics. Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you’ll easily be able to make copies of to give to your friends.
Create a Comic Strip
Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Caricatures – Fun with Faces
Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize! Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Caricatures – Fun with Faces
Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize! Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Make a Mini-Comic
Lots of comic creators got started by making mini-comics. Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you’ll easily be able to make copies of to give to your friends.
Manga
We’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork.
Workshop - Aardman Animation Model Making
We are super excited to be welcoming Aardman Animation to The Cartoon Museum to celebrate the Thirtieth Anniversary of Wallace & Gromit, The Wrong Trousers.
Come and make your own Wallace & Gromit characters to take home with you, ably assisted by Jim Parkyn - one of Aardman Animation's own modelmakers.
Storyboarding Workshop
After a look around our exhibition ‘The Wrong Trousers Turns 30’ The Cartoon Museum’s tutor Steve Marchant will lead you in a storyboarding workshop, inspired by Wallace and Gromit. He will show you how to draw the characters, and you’ll be able to write and draw your own adventure in a comic-strip style storyboard.
Halloween Horror with Monster Fun
Monster Fun comic features funny vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein’s Monster, ghosts and ghouls – perfect for Halloween. We’ll be drawing our own crazy creatures onto a Monster Fun cover, and there’s a free Monster Fun comic for all who attend!
JK Cartoon Studies: Night at the Museum
Join JK the young cartoonist in residence @ the cartoon museum for a Night at the Museum.
Workshop - Aardman Animation Model Making
We are super excited to be welcoming Aardman Animation to The Cartoon Museum to celebrate the Thirtieth Anniversary of Wallace & Gromit, The Wrong Trousers.
Come and make your own Wallace & Gromit characters to take home with you, ably assisted by Jim Parkyn - one of Aardman Animation's own modelmakers.
Young Cartoonists Award Workshop
The Young Cartoonists Award competition is open for entries in late October. The winner will be announced in January 2024, and they’ll receive a cash prize and have their entry displayed at The Cartoon Museum. If you’ve got ideas for funny cartoons (not comic strips) then this workshop will help you to get them looking their best.
Create a Comic Strip
Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Multiverse Madness
What if there’s another you living in another dimension? Perhaps in this other world you are a pirate, or an astronaut, a superhero, or something else. Learn how to draw yourself and have fun drawing an adventure featuring the ‘new you’ in a comic strip!
Superheroes
With so many Marvel and DC characters on TV and at the cinema, it’s a great time for superhero fans. If you like drawing superheroes and villains, we’ll show you how to draw your own in dynamic and dramatic poses that will get your artwork noticed!
Multiverse Madness
What if there’s another you living in another dimension? Perhaps in this other world you are a pirate, or an astronaut, a superhero, or something else. Learn how to draw yourself and have fun drawing an adventure featuring the ‘new you’ in a comic strip!
Spider-Potato
A special fun workshop for children aged 5-7. They must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian (at no extra cost).
In this session we’ll draw some famous superhero faces using simple lines and shapes. Then we’ll create a silly superhero and draw it onto a blank Marvel-style cover.
Advanced Manga
If you love manga and anime characters and would like to create your own, here’s where you’ll learn how to draw faces, expressions, bodies and clothing, and then feature your character in a story page of artwork.
Manga
We’ll be looking at the basics of drawing manga, creating our own character, and then featuring them in a page of manga artwork.
Create a Comic Strip
Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Inside Out Festival in Leicester Square - Aardman Model Making
Join us in Leicester Square for the Inside Out Festival and make your own Wallace & Gromit characters to take home with you, ably assisted by Will Harding, one of Aardman's own modelmakers.
Activites are free and drop-in throughout the day, and are suitable for age 6+.
Create a Comic Strip
Learn how to design your own cartoon characters and then draw them in a one-page comic strip story. Study best ways and bad ways to draw pictures for comics, and how to do proper speech bubbles. Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Multiverse Madness
What if there’s another you living in another dimension? Perhaps in this other world you are a pirate, or an astronaut, a superhero, or something else. Learn how to draw yourself and have fun drawing an adventure featuring the ‘new you’ in a comic strip!
Make a Mini-Comic
Lots of comic creators got started by making mini-comics. Learn how to create your own characters and draw them into a special booklet that you’ll easily be able to make copies of to give to your friends.
Superheroes
With so many Marvel and DC characters on TV and at the cinema, it’s a great time for superhero fans. If you like drawing superheroes and villains, we’ll show you how to draw your own in dynamic and dramatic poses that will get your artwork noticed!
Caricatures – Fun with Faces
Using simple lines and shapes, draw some famous comic characters and real-life people as cartoons. Take part in a fun competition where you could win a special prize! Great for beginners, and fun for those with a little more experience.
Advanced Manga
If you love manga and anime characters and would like to create your own, here’s where you’ll learn how to draw faces, expressions, bodies and clothing, and then feature your character in a story page of artwork.
