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Paris Alleyne thought he might eventually get an award in his career as a comic book artist, he just didnāt anticipate it happening so soon. In the summer of 2020, Paris received an Eisner Award for Best Colourist on a Comic Book Series for his work on Afterlift, written by Chip Zdarsky and Jason […]
Dave Ross, comic book artist and a long time instructor at MTM, loves to tell stories, not with words, but with pictures. Thatās why he became an illustrator – specifically, a comic book illustrator.Ā āTell a story, whether itās your own or someone else’s”, advises Ross MTM Director of Outreach, Natalie Kauffman, “sat down” (virtually, […]
Michele Assarasakorn, a.k.a. M.Sassy.K, has come full circle in her work as an illustrator. She started off her diploma at MTM in Illustration for Sequential Arts, then switched to Concept Art (which she graduated from in 2011) and now primarily works as a comic book artist. She thought that background art for video games would […]
Taneikah Anderson could have given up after she got rejected the first time she applied for the Sean Michael Stewart Memorial Scholarship at Max the Mutt, but instead, she took it as a challenge to improve her portfolio and apply again. Good thing she did as the second time around was what made the difference! […]
Sometimes, even the most complex names and terminology are actually quite easy to understand, and sequential arts falls into that category. You might be stumped on first hearing the term, but it’s really very simple. Drawings and/or images that are used in a sequence (suddenly itās starting to make sense, eh?!) to tell or illustrate […]
Before we reveal some of the impressive graphic novel stats that every aspiring illustrator and/or storyboard artist should know, itāll help to clarify just what is a āgraphic novelā. Except thatās not so easy. Wikipedia even says āthe term is not strictly definedā and ā…the exact definition of a graphic novel is debatedā¦ā. Other definitions […]
Open House: Saturday and Sunday, October 1st & 2nd, 2016 Ā Max the Mutt draws passionate people who want to develop first-class skills. Ā Are you one of them? Ā Find out at our two-day Open House! Ā Our graduates have gone on to careers at top companies including Corus/Nelvana, Guru Studio, Arc Entertainment, Toon Box, National Film […]
Why Max the Mutt? It’s simple: we care. Max the Mutt offers working professionals as instructors, small class size, community, an emphasis on focus, a developmental curriculum following a year of basic skills training. We are in constant contact with the industries we serve to ensure that course content is up to date! Our yearly […]
Dave ‘s new book is fresh off the press! Published by Random House, it teaches how to draw the figure without reference. Dave writes: “I recently completed work on an instructional book titled FREEHAND FIGURE DRAWING FOR ILLUSTRATORS, due for general release on July 28, 2015. Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of Random House, is publishing […]