Christine Nishiyama, I CAN DRAW, doodle
Children's books are a unique form of storytelling in that the illustrations do not just reiterate the story told in the text, but are instead an integral part of the narrative. In a picture book, the words and pictures must work together to tell the story. Join local book illustrator Christine Nishiyama for a short slide show presentation and a drawing workshop on the power of pictures and how we all can draw, no matter our age, experience, or skill level. This workshop is for general audiences of all ages.
This program is presented in collaboration with High Country Humanities.
About Christine:
Christine Nishiyama is the author and/or illustrator of seven books, including the four book Layla and the Bots series published by Scholastic. She also self-published one indie children’s picture book and two indie craft books. Besides making books, she also writes weekly essays for her email newsletter and teaches online classes with more than 100,000 students. She believes making art is one of the best ways a person can spend their time and has dedicated her life to doing so and helping others do the same. She creates her art in a variety of mediums but especially loves drawing with Posca paint pens and Tombow brush pens.
Published Books:
Happy Paws (Layla and the Bots #1) by Vicky Fang – Scholastic, 2020
Built for Speed (Layla and the Bots #2) by Vicky Fang – Scholastic, 2020
Cupcake Fix (Layla and the Bots #3) by Vicky Fang – Scholastic, 2021
Making Waves (Layla and the Bots #4) by Vicky Fang – Scholastic, 2022
Indie Books:
We Are Fungi by Christine Nishiyama – Might Could Studios, 2017
Sketchbook to Style by Christine Nishiyama – Might Could Studios, 2023
Might Could Make a Book by Christine Nishiyama – Might Could Studios, 2024
Visit Christine's artist website Might Could Studios at Might-Could.com
About Craig:
Craig Fischer is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. His writings about comics, film, and popular culture have appeared in The Comics Journal, Appalachian Journal, The Complete Carl Barks Library, and in the books The Routledge Companion to Comics Studies (2016) and The Blacker the Ink: African Americans and Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art (2015). Recent projects include co-editing a collection of academic essays on comics creator Jack Kirby with Charles Hatfield and Susan Kirtley, and an article on goremeister movie director Herschell Gordon Lewis forthcoming in a book on horror edited by Stephen R. Bissette.
This program is presented in collaboration with High Country Humanities.
