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Skillshare

How To MAKE Comics - From concept, to pages, to publishing

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Overview

This course is designed to help you bring your comic book to life! To finally bring your loose ideas into something solid, something you can create, print, and even sell!!

In this course we will cover-

  • What are Comics?

  • Coming up with concepts and ideas

  • Character concepts with Clayton Barton 

  • Character sheets with Mike Van Orden

  • World Building - The Ws

  • World building - Architecture and themes

  • Script types

  • Shot Types

  • Shot composition

  • Composition exercises  

  • Types of panels

  • Panel flow

  • Tangents

  • Dynamic vs Static with Chris Graves

  • Storyline and Tempo

  • Story beats 

  • Thumbnailing Basics

  • Storyboarding thumbs with Jean-Claude De La Ronde

  • Color

  • Lettering - Fonts, Dialogues, and Word Bubbles 

  • Lettering - Titles 

  • Lettering - effect

  • Cover choices

  • Printing with Barry Gregory

  • Marketing with Rob Arnold 

  • Teambuilding with Rob Arnold 

As you can see, there's a ton of experience in the instructor pool on this one. I've searched through friends, colleagues, and contacts to make sure I brought you insight into all parts of the process.

So no, this course isn't designed to teach you how to draw, I have other courses for that, it IS designed to help you bring WHATEVER type of comic you're looking to produce to fruition!

So, stop dreaming about maybe "one day" making your comic, NOW is the time! Start now... because the sooner you start, the sooner it'll get done and you can finally rest. hahahaha

-Ed

Special thanks to:

Clayton Barton (Aus)- Founder of How To Draw Comics

Mike Van Orden (Thailand) - Artist/Instructor

Chris Graves (US)- Artist/Instructor

Jean-Claude De La Ronde (Can)- Storyboard Artist

Barry Gregory (US)- Founder and co-owner at Ka-Blam Digital Printing

Rob Arnold (Aus) - Writer/Creator of REPLICATOR

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • A disclaimer
  • What are comics
  • Concepts and Ideas
  • Character Design with Clayton Barton
  • Character Turnarounds with Mike van Orden
  • World Building the Ws
  • Worldbuilding Architecture
  • Script types
  • Scripts part2 with Steve Colle
  • Composition
  • Composition exercise
  • Panels
  • Panel Flow
  • Understanding Tangents
  • Dynamic vs Static with Chris Graves
  • Storyline
  • Story Beats
  • Thumbs Basics
  • Storyboarding with Jean Claude
  • Color Theory
  • Fonts and Dialogue
  • Titles
  • Text effects
  • Typography with Todd Cowden
  • Covers
  • Printing with Barry Gregory
  • Marketing with Rob Arnold
  • Teambuilding with Rob Arnold
  • Webcomics with Walter Ostlie
  • Branding with Christine Shinn
  • Making wrap up

Taught by

Ed Foychuk

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