Join cartoonist M.S. Harkness for an hour of tips and tricks on articulating a wide range of emotional states with drawing comics! Tune in to learn about some helpful strategies for externalizing a bad mood, drawing even when you “can’t draw” and the power of staying present by zoning out with a pen in your hand. Bring something to doodle with, or feel free to just listen in.
M.S. Harkness is the author of the graphic novels Desperate Pleasures (Uncivilized, 2020) and Tinderella (Kilgore Books, 2018) and various self-published works including Rotten and Dope Dealer. Harkness has been featured on The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts and was a recipient of the Minnesota Artist’s initiative grant for her autobiographical comics. She is an NASM certified Personal Trainer is currently working on her third graphic novel.
Check out her website: msharkness.com
October 29, 2021
noon-1 p.m.
ZOOM
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Caitlin Donahue (caitlin.donahue@osumc.edu). Requests made by Oct 22 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
Medicine & the Arts is part of the Linda C. Stone, MD, Program for Humanism & the Arts in Medicine and is supported by grants from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, the OSU College of Medicine Alumni Society, the Wexner Medical Center Service Board and generous donors to the Medicine and the Arts Fund with the OSU Foundation.