Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson, I’m going to show you how I take a script and turn it into an actual comic. I will walk you through my process and share specific things that I keep in mind when laying out the panels. You will use your script to create a rough draft of your comic.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Layout, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration. Learn comic creation, scriptwriting, visual storytelling, and character illustration for digital and print publication.

Partial transcription of the video

“Layout We've written our comic, and now we'll figure out our comic's layout. When it comes to pacing, basically you're dictating how the comic is being read. For example, in this comic, I originally had it as two panels, but I realized that by breaking it out into three, I can dictate how the punch line was being read. In this version, the shark says, "My name's Kevin, but people call me, ah!" And the shark screams. By adding an additional panel, "Hi, my name's Kevin, but humans just call me..." and then when the shark screams, I can change the emotion of the shark, and dictate how the comi...”

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Course summary for: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (10)
• 1026 students
• 10 units
• 81 lessons (14h 2m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Fiction Writing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration