Spark your child's creativity through a unique comic-making workshop that blends art, storytelling, and wildlife awareness. Led by neOwn x Ritu Desai, this interactive online workshop introduces children to visual storytelling, comic creation, and storyboarding while encouraging empathy for animals and nature.
Through engaging activities, children will learn to create comics from an animal's perspective, explore the idea of freedom, and imagine a world where people, animals, and nature coexist harmoniously.
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Learn the fundamentals of comic-making and visual storytelling.
- Develop dialogue writing and storyboarding skills.
- Explore the concept of freedom from different perspectives.
- Build empathy towards animals and nature.
- Discover fascinating facts about wildlife.
- Understand the connection between animals, habitats, humans, and climate.
- Create original comics inspired by their imagination.
- Think creatively about building a kinder and more inclusive world.
Workshop Structure
Day 1- Creatig a Comic : An Animal's Point of View
- Introduction to comic-making
- Understanding comic panels, fonts and art styles
- Exploring similarities between young animals, plants and people
- Creating an original comic
Day 2 - Story for a world where eberyone belongs
- Storyboarding techniques
- Tips for refining stories and comics
- Imagining a better world for everyone
- Understanding how animals help us and how we can protect them
- Final comic presentation
Material Required
- Drawing sheets or sketchbook
- Pencil and eraser
- Colouring materials (crayons/colour pencils/sketch pens)
- Black marker (optional)
Meet the Teacher
Ritu Desai is an educator, writer, musician, and children's author with a deep love for nature and storytelling. She is the author of the children's book "Plants are Everywhere" and brings over 8 years of experience conducting children's workshops in creative writing and debate. Through comics and stories, Ritu helps children see how animals, birds, trees, and bees all deserve a healthy planet — and how creativity can be a powerful tool to make the world a better place.
