Kids, you have probably read a few comics in your time - now create your own! Learn how to turn simple lines and shapes into expressive characters full of life and personality. Discover how different facial expressions and body movements can show a spectrum of emotions — whether it is a big, toothy grin for happiness or slouched shoulders for sadness. Through engaging and enjoyable activities, kids will gain confidence in drawing their own characters and understanding how to use basic visual techniques to tell riveting wordless stories. 

The workshop also highlights the skill of creating personification characters. Kids will explore how to humanise everyday objects or abstract ideas — turning the sun into a cheerful, dancing figure or a raindrop into a sad, shy character. By the end, each child will have crafted a one-of-a-kind comic filled with unique characters and stories that reflect their creativity and newfound skills in visual storytelling. 

Students will: 

• Grasp the significance of basic lines, expressions and movements of characters in comics 

• Explore personification 

• Conceptualise four-panel comics using the "introduction, development, twist, and conclusion" structure 

• Learn colouring techniques 

• Complete the comic based on instructor feedback  

Tutor 

Ma Sing Yuen 

Ma is a renowned comic and Chinese ink painting artist in Hong Kong with a wide range of interests and a diverse creative scope. His repertoire includes political cartoons, historical comics, biographical comics, humorous lifestyle comics, and children’s educational comics. In 2004, he founded the publishing house ‘Century Culture’ with his wife Fong She-mei, focusing on the creation of children’s educational publications and publishing over 800 titles to date. In addition to his own comic brand ‘White Cat Black Cat’, Ma also illustrated the ‘Fun with Classical Chinese’ series that has effectively combined education with entertaining comics.  

Cartoon statues of his character, Q the White Cat, appear in Kowloon Park and the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai, and recognised as an iconic ‘Hong Kong comic character’.   

Ma’s Chinese ink paintings have featured in various solo and group exhibitions. His solo shows include Daily Life of Zen (2017), Glimpses of the Bygone (2018), and Happy Ink Paintings (2024). Group exhibitions include the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society 43rd Annual Exhibition, Visions Present and Future (2017), and In Memory of the 105th Anniversary of Master Hongyi’s Ordination: The Li Lijuan-Ma Singyuen Ink Painting and Calligraphy Joint Exhibition (2024). 

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