For the 2019 VAF Masterclasses, four very different South Korean creatives led five workshops with an aim to provide young Danish creatives with insight into the craft and art of Korean comics and illustration. International superstar artist Kim Jung Gi taught two workshops on drawing figures and vehicles in perspective, and Korean anatomy guru Stonehouse gave a comprehensive presentation on human anatomy and using it even in very stylized representations on humans.

Moving from drawing craft to sequential storytelling, cartoonist Rigun Yi conducted a workshop on Webtoons-style comics – a form pioneered in South Korea in which comics are formatted vertically for optimal smart phone reading. And Korean/Belgian auteur Jung led the students in exploring autobio stories in the style of his own “Approved for Adoption” about growing up in Belgium as a Korean adoptee. All four workshops combined lectures and demos with assignments or visual notetaking from the attendees, which were a mix of students from The Animation Workshop and other aspiring professionals.

Total number of masterclass attendees: approx 800