Our Focus comic free art camp for autistic and special needs kids is growing! Meet our new students! We are now 92 weeks into our free art camp. This week our creator Yvonne Wan, taught the kids about the art of Foreshortening in comics. Foreshortening refers to the technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so… Read more →
We are 91 weeks into the Focus comic free art camp for autistic and special needs kids. This week our students learned how to create a trading card envelope which can also be used as a lucky red card envelope. Our students learned about packaging design, different worldly calendars and cultural traditions. Our students had fun. Here is the highlights… Read more →
Focus comic are proud to be one of the first in the comic industry to host a prestigious Artist Year of the Year Award ceremony for autistic and special needs kids. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate our students achievements at Focus Comic Artist of the Year 2021 Award Ceremony. The event opened with a presentation of the… Read more →
We are proud to announce that Bruno Pedicini have landed a trading card internship with Focus comic. Check out Bruno’s awesome trading card art. We are proud to support young autistic talent. Feel free to order his trading card here: https://www.focuscomic.com/focus-comic-merchandize/ Bruno is happy to accept autograph requests. 100% of the autograph proceeds go towards giving our interns art supplies.… Read more →
Our Focus Comic free winter festival for autistic and special needs kids was a success. Many thanks to celebrity Kevin McNally (from Pirates of the Caribbean and Dr Who) , Yvonne Wan (Focus comic creator, writer and art teacher) and Douglas Hebert (comic artist and certified art teacher) for teaching the kids during the two day event. The two day… Read more →
We are proud to announce that the Focus Comic Virtual Winter festival is taking place Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 December for Arizonian kids with autism and special needs kids between 6-14 years of age. Who is Focus? Focus is one of the worlds first autistic super heroes featured in Focus comic. Focus comic features art by professionals plus… Read more →
Focus comic are looking for autistic kids between 6-14 years old to apply for an art internship opportunity with us, so we can help develop their artistic skills, teach them about trading card artistry and help them get their art printed as a trading card. This is a mini internship program for beginners. The art internship program is free for… Read more →
This week Focus Comic celebrated its 89th week of its free art camp for autistic and special needs kids. The kids were introduced to the traditional art of #suminagashi. Here is this weeks highlights film: Want to participate in this class. Here is the tutorial: Art supplies needed: sumi ink, sumi paper, sumi brushes x 2, a4 tray, water, dish… Read more →
On Sunday, Focus Comic held an in person graduation ceremony at Samurai Comics for our ‘Focus Comic loves Arizona’ Free 5 week comic art program for autistic and special needs kids. We also held an online graduation ceremony for those who could not attend in person. The students drew themselves as super heroes along side Focus the autistic super hero… Read more →
We are five weeks into our ‘Focus love Arizona’ free 5 week art program for autistic and special needs kids. This week we taught our special needs and autistic students how to ink and color themselves as a super heroes along side Focus and a villain. They were introduced to different inking techniques, the color wheel and color theory and… Read more →