Hands-on with Noir Drawing
with Shawn Martinbrough
In conjunction with the exhibition The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman, join us for a hands-on workshop led by Shawn Martinbrough where participants are invited to explore how light can be used to enhance the drama in storytelling. Building on the April figure drawing class, the artist and a figure model will show us how noir-style drawing plays on shadow and light to create movement and mood. Seeing how shadows fall gives us insight into human anatomy. Playing with angles and lighting while imagining the position of the character has the power to create an entirely new visual scene.
No experience necessary. All materials provided.
IMAGE: Shawn Martinbrough, Anansi Boys, 2024
About Shawn Martinbrough
Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Penguin Random House and an Eisner Award-nominated artist whose comic book projects include: Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther: Man Without Fear, and Hellboy. He is also a Vanity Fair contributor. Martinbrough is a co-author of Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court by Simon & Schuster and the artist of Like Lava in My Veins, the 2024 NAACP Image Award-nominated, best-selling kid’s book written by Derrick D. Barnes and published by Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Kids. Martinbrough is the writer of Red Hood: The Hill for DC Comics and is currently illustrating an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys for Dark Horse Comics, with screenwriter Marc Bernardin.
