Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll give you a bit of the backstory of how I ended up here. I’ll tell you about what I was doing before I started They Can Talk, how I started it, and some of the goals I achieved, some of the unexpected opportunities that the comic has led to, and really how I ended up in a position where I get to share everything I’ve learned with you.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories. Learn how to develop, draw, and digitize your sketches to create a successful illustrated comic strip for social media.

Partial transcription of the video

“About Me I'm Jimmy Craig. I'm a cartoonist from north of Boston, Massachusetts, and I make the comic "They Can Talk." "They Can Talk", by Jimmy Craig Now that is art. Look but don't touch. No, no, please... touch the art. There was never really a specific point where I was like, "I'll make comics for a living." I was just doing it on the side and gradually, over time, it became a bigger part of my life. I've always loved to draw, I never thought of it as a career, but slowly over time, I took very deliberate steps to turn my hobby into something I do professionally. I've always approached t...”

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Course summary for: Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (127)
• 2568 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 33m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration