Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“When you write a comic, it should sound like you wrote it, not your favorite cartoonist. It should sound like you. In this lesson, we will talk about how to discover your voice or how to define your voice. We’re going to look at some comics and listen to how they sound different. We’re also going to do an exercise to see how everyone might have a different way of writing the same caption in a comic. The goal is to identify what your voice is and to keep it consistent in your comics.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: Finding Your Voice, 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

“Finding Your Voice We've talked about how to define your comics theme. Now, we're gonna talk about your comics voice. That unique voice in your comic is ideally your voice, and it's kind of a weird thing to try to define what makes your voice uniquely you, but that's what we'll do, try to at least get there a bit, pull out those little bits to help us figure out what makes us sound uniquely you. Once we do that, we can have a clear, consistent voice in our comic. It's not easy to define what makes your voice sound uniquely you, but we'll do some exercises to figure out what that is. The goa...”

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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