Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“I will share some of my biggest influences- from when I was a young kid to when I was a student in college. Some of my influences might be obvious, some might be more surprising. I’ll show you some collections of my favorite comics and talk about some of my favorite strips.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: Influences , 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

“Influences I shared with you a little bit about myself, and now I'm gonna tell you about some of my influences. I'll share with you some of the comics that I love and I grew up with, because while "They can talk" might be a little similar or really different than some of them, all of them have had an influence on my writing in some way. My first one is "Calvin and Hobbes", easily my favorite comic of all time. I think that many cartoonists would cite this as an influence for very good reason. I think the writing is amazing, the art is amazing. I think something that's particularly impressiv...”

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Course summary for: Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (127)
• 2571 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 33m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration