Comic Strip Creation: Illustrating Unique Stories

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn how to make your comic look uniquely yours. I will show you some different comics and discuss the visual differences between them. We will talk about the elements that encompass your comic’s ‘look’- characters, backgrounds, fonts, colors, and layout. You will do an illustration exercise to help define your unique style.”

In this video lesson Jimmy Craig addresses the topic: Defining Your Style, 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

“Defining Your Style Now, we'll be defining your comic style. First, we'll see the elements that make up a comic style and then we'll compare some comics. Lastly, I'll use "They Can Talk" as an example for making a style guide. Comics should have their own unique style, their own unique look. Briefly, we'll look at the same three comics we did in the last lesson, "They Can Talk", "Poorly Drawn Lines" and Liz Climo. These are very similar, which I think makes differentiating them visually a little more interesting. I'm gonna make some generalizations, you can probably find some exceptions, bu...”

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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