Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“Now that you know me better, I’m going to tell you why I’m teaching this course and I’m going to explain the goal of it. I will say that I’m not a fan of telling someone how to be creative. This is about taking your creativity, your ideas, and packaging them for a specific medium-comics.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, 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

“What Will We Do in This Course? I've shared some of my influences, and now we'll see what to expect from the course. I love comics. I've loved comics for a really long time, I continue to love comics, and now I make them, too. I started "They Can Talk" at a crazy time in my life. My wife was actually eight months pregnant, we were moving, my office had been turned into a baby room, and I was in the living room with my desk and I made my first comic. I had to be deliberate and efficient with my time. I reserved two hours a week to make this comic, and it wasn't a big time commitment, but I s...”

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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