Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

Overview

“In this lesson, I’m going to show you all the materials I use in the elaboration of my comic book pages. ”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe. Learn to create your own fictional world through visual storytelling.

Partial transcription of the video

“Materials To draw comics, all we really need is pencil and paper. I recommend a hard, medium pencil with HB or 2B lead, or a technical pencil. Some people like blue lead. That's fine, it gives the finish pages a nice blue underline and you don't have to erase the pencils after the inks are done but it's quite hard and it takes some time to get used to. I'll be using a 2B pencil for about 90% of all the artwork I'll be doing on the pages during this course. For paper, I recommend Bristol board. It takes pencils and inks really well with little to no texture. It's thicker than regular paper, ...”

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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (162)
• 5122 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 59m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration