Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic

Overview

“With the concepts clear and already more informed about what we are going to talk about, I will explain how to start turning words into images in a sketch exercise. You will take the notebook or loose leaves and you will now investigate with paper and pencil discovering our main characters. We will try different sizes, shapes, expressions and colors until we find the images that make the most sense to us.”

In this video lesson Sol Díaz Castillo addresses the topic: Sketches and character creation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic. Explore your inner world to create and share illustrated stories ranging from the personal to the universal.

Partial transcription of the video

“Sketches and character creation. Now we are going to sketch the characters that will star in our story. The first thing I do is summarize a bit what we are left with in the investigation. We stayed in the idea of the panther and all that she means, and the idea of woman, the female panther, what relates them, etc. I am left with these two ideas that are the ones that I will start to draw and unravel through the image. What else can the characters give us? How are they going to move and relate? So I'm going to start talking about a panther from a logic a little more related to reality. I'm l...”

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Course summary for: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (112)
• 1736 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (3h 21m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Drawing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing