Jesse van Muylwijck gives workshops for children and adults. The visual communication workshop is aimed at professionals who want to add a creative element to their presentations. The comic and cartoon drawing workshop is suitable for all ages. The family stories workshop is ideally suited as a school project.
Images are all around us. Much more so than in the past. Texts are making way for logos, memes, and cartoons. It makes sense: an image is easy to understand and says more than a thousand words. Images are indispensable for giving a captivating presentation, and an original touch creates a cheerful atmosphere. The audience remains engaged, and the content is better understood and remembered.
Jesse van Muylwijck can highlight this in a workshop. With countless examples, including his own cartoons, he helps participants make the mental shift from word to image and challenges them to convey messages more strongly using metaphors, icons, and drawings.
Highly suitable for conferences, symposia, and seminars, for internal management training, and as part of courses.
Nothing is better than giving free rein to your imagination and writing and drawing whatever comes to mind. The comic strip is an ideal form for this, due to its unique combination of image and word. Drawing talent is not essential: Jesse can teach anyone simple tricks that allow emotion and action to be expressed effectively and storytelling techniques to be applied convincingly.
Various workshops are possible. In a general workshop, participants create a complete comic story with consecutive panels, based on their own ideas, while Jesse teaches them how to draw facial expressions, design different characters, draw movement, and apply perspective.
In the Family Stories workshop, participants can interview a parent, grandparent, or other family member and, with pen and paper in hand, ask about special stories. With Jesse’s help, the text is transformed into a storyboard and a graphic story: a poster-sized comic. In this way, a story of special value to the artist and his or her family is immortalized.
Jesse is a co-author of the Teleac course book Comic & Cartoon Drawing. He has given countless workshops in various countries, in education from primary school to art academies, and in prisons, libraries, and cultural centers.
