Society of Authors Drawalong with Mollie Ray

Friday 22 November | 11-11:45

Free (ticketed)

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If you have any questions or for more information regarding software or accessibility, please contact the organiser directly.

Join Comic Creator Mollie Ray as she leads this draw along session using ball-point pen to create personified objects into characters. 

Attendees will be asked to draw objects in a room and giving them faces, turning them into characters, focusing on tone and contrast to effect the mood and personalities of your characters. 

For this session, you will need: 

  • A black ball point pen 
  • Three coloured pens 
  • Paper 
  • To be in a room with objects inside 

This session is in conjunction with the Society of Authors Comics Creators Network (CCN) and is part of both the SoA’S AGM Week and Book Week Scotland.

Booking

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Important information

Accessibility

  • Attendees will have the option to turn on the live transcript, to watch with subtitles
  • If you require BSL interpretation for this event, please email [email protected]

Before the event

  • Once registered, you will be sent a confirmation email with the Zoom link
  • If the confirmation email doesn’t arrive in your inbox, please check your junk/spam email folder
  • Please add [email protected] to your Safe Senders list so you receive our confirmation and reminder emails

During the event

  • This online event will take place on Zoom Meetings; you will be visible on screen and will be able ask questions via the chat box or by unmuting yourself
  • This event will be recorded and you may be on screen
  • This event is 45 minutes

After the event

  • Hashtag for this event: #SoAatHome
  • You’ll be able to catch the recording on our Vimeo channel

Send us your questions

If you would like to send questions in advance, email Lilly Brend-Fish on [email protected] with ‘Mollie Ray Draw along’ in the subject header. We will prioritise questions sent in advance and answer as many as we can from the audience on the day.

About Mollie Ray

Mollie Ray is a Lancaster-based comic artist and illustrator. Ray's debut graphic novel Giant was published in 2024 with Faber and Faber. In 2019, Ray graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a First-Class Honours degree in Illustration. Her work has been featured by Creative Boom, The AOI and Broken Frontier's 'Six To Watch In 2021'. She has also done work for the BBC in support of David Attenborough's Wild Isles series and self-published multiple short-form comics.

www.mollieray.co.uk

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