Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“We’re going to start creating your comic, by tackling the first element of your comic’s identity- the theme. You’re going to do a writing exercise to help identify your theme, and I’m going to show you how I came up with the concept behind They Can Talk. I’m also going to do the exercise myself to come up with a brand-new comic.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: Identifying a Theme, 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

“Identifying a Theme Identifying a Theme We've talked about the elements that make up your comic's identity. Now we're specifically going to target your comic's theme. What's a comic's theme? A literary theme might be something like good versus evil or revenge, but we're talking about your comic's message. What's the point of your comic? What do you want to say? We'll do an exercise to discover our comic's theme. You might already have one in mind, but it's still good to get it on paper. Your comic's theme. I broke it down into 3 different elements, your stories and jokes, your characters an...”

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Course summary for: Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

• Level: Beginner
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• 2568 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (1h 33m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration