Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences
Sketching Thumbnails
A course by Alec Longstreth , Cartoonist
About the video: Sketching Thumbnails
Overview
“To begin, you will plan out your page using small rough drawings (maybe even stick figures!) so that you have room to make lots of corrections before you do the labor of drawing the comic. ”
In this video lesson Alec Longstreth addresses the topic: Sketching Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences. Learn how to write, pencil, and ink a comic based on your personal experiences, from the initial idea to the finished page.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, we generated ideas and it was messy. We've got audio recordings, pieces of paper, all this stuff. In this lesson, we are going to organize that information into a thumbnail. Which will be sort of a roadmap of the page of comics that we're going to draw Now, the big idea with thumbnails is that you want to work rough. You should be erasing as much as you're drawing. It should be a little bit messy, but you don't want very much detail. The idea here is if you have your first panel and you draw it perfectly, and you're putting the eyelashes in and spending all this time...”
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Course summary for: Autobiographical Comic Book: Illustrate Your Experiences
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Comic, Communication, Digital Illustration, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Alec Longstreth
A course by Alec Longstreth
Alec Longstreth is a cartoonist, freelance illustrator, and teacher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He first fell in love with comics thanks to his grandfather who would read them in the newspaper, and soon began exploring iconic titles at his local comic shop and public library. Alec quickly fell in love with Disney comics in particular, and drew a six-page comic at just 12 years old that won a prize at a local art competition.
He started drawing comics seriously while studying technical theater at Oberlin College. Alec’s comics were featured in the student newspaper, and after graduating, he began self-publishing them. Since then, he has released 24 issues of his minicomic Phase 7, and won awards for both his first and second comic project, Isle of Elsi. He later moved to New York City to study illustration at Pratt Institute and launched his freelance illustration career, working with Highlights Magazine, National Geographic Kids, and Nickelodeon. Alongside creating art, Alec teaches workshops to students as the Director of Academic Outreach at The Center for Cartoon Studies.
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