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Author : Scott McCloud
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0060780940
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.
Author : Mark Kneece
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781607747512
A practical guide for beginner and advanced comic book writers that outlines the steps needed to successfully craft a story for sequential art. With this latest book in the SCAD Creative Essentials series from the esteemed Savannah College of Art and Design, comics writer and instructor Mark Kneece gives aspiring comic book writers the essential tools they need to write scripts for sequential art with confidence and success. He provides a practical set of guidelines favored by many comic book publishers and uses a unique trial and error approach to show would-be scribes the potential pitfalls they might encounter when seeking a career in comics writing. Supported by examples of scripting from SCAD's students, faculty, and alumni,The Art of Comic Book Writing strips away the mysteries of this popular artform and provides real-world advice and easy-to-follow examples for those looking to write for the comics medium.
Author : Dave Gibbons,Tim Pilcher
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 078583737X
In Eisner Award–nominated Making Comics, Dave Gibbons offers a class in creating comic books. Learn scriptwriting, page layouts, lettering, and more from the incredible artist behind Watchmen! This “How It's Done” book reveals insider hints, tips, and tricks from one of the world’s greatest comic creators, all in his own words. The artist behind juggernauts like Watchmen and The Green Lantern, Dave Gibbons, is here to teach you scriptwriting, page layouts, lettering, cover designs, and more, with scans of original artwork and rarely seen workings to illustrate his personal creative processes. Making Comics covers both Gibbons' hand-drawn and digital design techniques in depth. An early adopter of computer design in comic creation, all his lettering is digital, and he even has his own “hand-lettered” font. This is your chance to gain insight to Gibbons' digital work, from his computer coloring and 3-D modelling with Angus McKie on Give Me Liberty, to his work on The Originals using digital grey tones. You’ll learn how he layers text for editing, creates effects such as flares and neon glows, and prepares artwork for print and online. Making Comics is everything you need to know to get started creating great comic books.
Author : Lynda Barry
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770463690
The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don’t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can’t draw that they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.
Author : Greg Pak,Fred Van Lente
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780385344517
A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros. Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book Creators Do you want to break into the comics industry? There are many creative roles available—writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor, and more. Each creator serves a vital function in the production of sequential art at companies such as DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant. In Make Comics Like the Pros, veteran comics creators Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente team up with a who’s who of the modern comic book scene to lead you step-by-step through the development of a comic. With these two fan-favorite writers as your guides, you’ll learn everything from script formatting to the importance of artistic collaboration to the best strategies for promoting and selling your own sequential art masterpiece. Pak and Van Lente even put their lessons into practice inside the pages of the book—pairing with Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Colleen Coover (Bandette) to produce the swashbuckling, adventure comic Swordmaids, and giving you front row seats to their creative process. Make Comics Like the Pros provides all the answers you’ve been seeking to take your comic book–making dreams all the way to professional-level reality.
Author : Mark Chiarello,Todd Klein
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780770434571
Acclaimed artists Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein demystify these essential steps in traditional graphic storytelling. Chiarello explains the entire coloring process, from computer and software choice to creating color effects that give the action its maximum impact. Klein discusses whether to letter by hand or by computer—a hotly debated topic among working letterers—and demonstrates an array of techniques for creasting word balloons, fonts, logos, and much more.
Author : Maury Aaseng,Bob Berry,Jim Campbell,Dana Muise,Joe Oesterle
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781633228306
Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines. Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw basic cartoon characters, superheroes, villains, and more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you’ll learn to draw action scenes, set up panels, add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book word treatments. With approachable exercises and projects to guide you, The Art of Comic Book Drawing allows beginning artists to create their own comic books, step by step. This helpful guide also includes practice pages to put your newfound skills to immediate use.
Author : Jess Smart Smiley
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399580727
A light-hearted interactive guide to comics and cartoon-making that uses an activity book format and creatively stimulating prompts to teach the fundamentals of cartooning in a fun and easy-to-follow fashion. From a working cartoonist and comic book making instructor, this all-ages activity book uses humorous and informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master lessons on the skills needed to make comics. The activities cover a range of essential comics-making tasks from creating expressions for characters to filling in blank panels to creating original characters and placing them in adventures of their own. Each exercise can stand on its own or work together with others in the book to stimulate creativity via the comics medium. In the end, readers who complete the activities inside the book itself will have created several comics of their own, and will have generated many ideas for more sequential art creations. Praise for Let’s Make Comics! “At once playful and complex, this book is a perfect introduction to cartooning, as well as a lovely (and lovingly crafted) tribute to the comics form and a timely reminder that artmaking can be fun.”—Roman Muradov, creator of Vanishing Act and On Doing Nothing “Let’s Make Comics is a book I wish I had when I was 9, but 29 works too! It’s so fun and brilliant and packed with oodles of awesome activities. Great book for learning to make comics or for a seasoned cartoonist to find some new inspiration.”—Ben Clanton, creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books “It’s fantastic! This book will make you a better writer and a better artist and show you how to think like a comic star.”—Charise Harper, creator of the Fashion Kitty and Crafty Cat books “Warning! This book will make you make comics, and it will be fun!”—Greg Pizzoli, creator of The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam, and The Book Hog “If only we'd had this book! Our comics would be much better.”—Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, creators of War and Peas
Author : Dennis O'Neil
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780770434557
For any writer who wants to become an expert comic-book storyteller, The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics is the definitive, one-stop resource! In this valuable guide, Dennis O’Neil, a living legend in the comics industry, reveals his insider tricks and no-fail techniques for comic storytelling. Readers will discover the various methods of writing scripts (full script vs. plot first), as well as procedures for developing a story structure, building subplots, creating well-rounded characters, and much more. O’Neil also explains the many diverse formats for comic books, including graphic novels, maxi-series, mega-series, and adaptation. Of course, there are also dozens of guidelines for writing proposals to editors that command attention and get results.
Author : Comikers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1569709173
Good penning and inking comes with knowledge and practice, and this book enlists famous pros to share their wisdom. Includes step-by-step instructions by these industry giants to help budding artists master their craft.
Author : Arcturus Publishing
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781838578930
Calling all comic fans! Packed with tips, techniques and step-by-step guides based on the illustrations of 5 acclaimed comic artists, this is the ultimate guide to creating action-packed comics for ages 8+. This is a guide not just to drawing characters, but to the whole process of comic book creation: planning a story, developing characters and plots, using dialogue, setting out dynamic comic pages, and creating appealing covers.
Author : Ivan Brunetti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300172591
Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.
Author : Andy Schmidt
Publisher : IMPACT
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1600610226
From the creative minds behind your favorite modern-day comics ... In this unprecedented, behind-the-scenes guide, former Marvel editor and current IDW senior editor Andy Schmidt and his superstar industry friends give you the inside track on creating engaging, professional-looking comic books. Written for upcoming creative stars and comic book enthusiasts, The Insider's Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels covers the entire creative process from beginning to end, from fine-tuning a script to the nuances of camera angles, costume design and lettering. You'll learn not only how to emulate a camera pan, hit 'em with a splash page and shift into slow motion, but also WHEN and WHY to dip into that bag of graphic tricks for maximum impact. The real-world guide to creating great comics! Profiles and insights from John Romita, Jr., Neal Adams, Gene Ha, David Finch and John Byrne Professional advice from top talents in the business, including writers Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns and Tom DeFalco; inkers Klaus Janson, Karl Kesel and Mike Perkins; colorist Chris Sotomayor; and letterer Chris Eliopoulos Expert instruction on every element of the creative process - writing, drawing, inking, coloring, page layout and scene design - and how they all work together
Author : Andy Schmidt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440351884
Unlock the secrets to comic-writing success! "You have a story tell. It's your story... These are ways to help you get your story out, to help you become the writer inside of yourself." This is the book on writing you've been waiting for, a nuts-and-bolts guide to writing fiction for comics. While it is true that there is no set way to write a comic book script, no set format, no industry standard, it is equally true that someone learning to write comics needs structure. That's where Comics Experience© Guide to Writing Comics can help. Comics veteran Andy Schmidt offers sage advice and practical instruction for everything from writing realistic dialogue to communicating your ideas to other comics professionals. Inside you'll find: • 23 exercises to help you put fundamental writing principles into practice • Sample script formats, page-by-page outlines, scene-by-scene outlines and short pitches that show you exactly how to create these important components of the writing process • Diagrams and pages from published comics to illustrate key concepts • Tips on professional development, networking and navigating the comics industry These pages include all the tools you need to write great comics, but where do you begin? Begin with yourself. You have to know--not believe--know: You can do this, and this guide will help. Now, begin with Chapter 1...
Author : David Wayne Chiu
Publisher : Rockridge Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647399076
Create your own comic book with this illustrated guide for kids 8-12! Swashbuckling adventure, spooky mystery, thrilling fantasy—any story you can dream up can be a dazzling comic book. Discover the power of storytelling when you write a graphic novel that puts your drawing, writing, and imagination skills into action! This guide to graphic novels for kids helps you: Make comics like a pro—Fun exercises will teach you the best techniques for writing an outline, planning the transitions between panels, and more. Create from beginning to end—Learn the steps for writing and illustrating your story from start to finish and find 50 pages of blank graphic novel panels to fill with anything you like! Add the details—Explore how to bring your comics to life with speech bubbles, sound effects, inking, and coloring. Whether you want to invent a new superhero, make a world of talking animals, or share stories from your real life, all you need is this blank comic book for kids—and your creativity!
