Introduction to Digital Comic
Lettering, they are not just letters
A course by Albert Monteys Homar , Illustrator and Comic Book Writer
Joined September 2018
About the video: Lettering, they are not just letters
Overview
“I encourage you to think of signage as a fundamental part of narration and drawing. We will also address practical issues of basic readability. ”
In this video lesson Albert Monteys Homar addresses the topic: Lettering, they are not just letters, 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
“Lettering are not just letters In this lesson we will explain how to label the comic. You will see that I have the original page. You and I also in this process, We have the page scanned and we work it in digital. But I wanted to play a part and explain something about the original page, because I don't want to spare information about hand lettering. I am very much in favor of hand lettering. Labeling on computer has advantages, you can edit the text as much as you want, you have a very large handling and reaction capacity, but labeling the comic by hand seems very interesting to me, if you...”
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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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