Introduction to Digital Comic
Acting for comics
A course by Albert Monteys Homar , Illustrator and Comic Book Writer
Joined September 2018
Joined September 2018
About the video: Acting for comics
Overview
“The importance of the characters, from design to acting and expressiveness. If we can tell something without adding text, with a look or a silence, let's try it! ”
In this video lesson Albert Monteys Homar addresses the topic: Acting for comics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Comic. Learn to create, publish, and promote a graphic novel for digital formats.
Partial transcription of the video
“Acting for comics We are about to draw our comic page, but first I'll take a detour to talk to you a little of the performance of characters in the cartoon. If I were a more epic comic artist, I would surely tell you here how to make spectacular poses, people jumping, but my comics are more costumbristas. That's why I'm going to talk about much more subtle expressions and gestures that indicate the psychology of the character while talking, maybe, about something else. The characters in a comic are fundamental as we put them on page, because what the reader will do is follow the faces first...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Comic
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Albert Monteys Homar
A course by Albert Monteys Homar
Albert Monteys is a Spanish cartoonist with more than 25 years of experience illustrating and writing comics. While starting out, he self-published his comics, which led him to collaborate for 18 years on the Spanish humor weekly El Jueves, a publication that he also directed for four years.
His passion for narratives led him to venture into the digital world, collaborating on the humor magazine Pride and Satisfaction and the science fiction comic UNIVERSO!
He has been nominated for the Eisner award at the 2016 Comic-Con, USA and won the award for Best National Comic at the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona, Spain in 2019.
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