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Comics, Cartooning and Graphic Novels

Page history last edited by Frank Curkovic 13 years, 2 months ago

 

Techniques & Info

Drawing Video Tips

for Cartoons

Developing

Characters

 

How to Draw Manga

 

Comic Story Step by Step

If you are looking for a comic story guideline, here is a perfect step by step guide for you that will guide you starting with sketching and moving on through the inking and digital processes.

Screenshot


 

Inking Comics

Work in Progress

This site shows some example work.

Shading Exercise


Tack's Cartoon Tips

Lesson/Teaching Related

Comic Book

Project article

 

Art History Goes

Graphic (Lesson Idea)

ArtHistoryGoesGraphic.pdf

 
   

 

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Graphic Storytelling and Sequential Art and Storyboarding

 

Draw 160: Drawing warm-ups

 

How to Draw Adventure Time

 

This YouTube user, markcrilley offers several tutorials on how to draw manga. He is the creator of the Miki Falls Manga series. His website is here.

 

Check out Scott McCloud's site here.

 

Caricatures: Vibrant Artwork Inspired by Cartoons

Are comic books art? Do the aesthetic qualities of the artwork in a comic book outweigh the fact that it was drawn for commercial purposes, or vice versa? Can anything, no matter how beautiful it is, be considered art if it wasn’t created as art for art’s sake?

These are all good questions about the validity of comic books as art. Thankfully, we WON’T be answering them here — we’ll leave the debate to the experts. Because while the value of the art from comic book is often contested, artwork INSPIRED BY comic books and cartoons is art. And there’s no debating that.

 

How Manga Conquered the U.S., a Graphic Guide to Japan's Coolest Export

Here is Wired's visual history of manga in America! They decided that the best way to explain the increasing popularity of this exciting medium was to to tell the story in the form of a manga. (downloadable PDF available)

 

Turning Star Wars Japanese -- Manga Scenes Done Better

Manga vs. Marvel -- it's truly an unfair comparison to gauge how well Marvel Comics originally adapted the classic trilogy films against how Japanese artists did the same. The deck is definitely stacked in manga's favor. For the Marvel adaptations, produced during each film's post-production period, the artists had not seen the films -- they were working merely from the script, with some key photography and maybe some concept art. Also, they had to conform to the page and printing standards of newsstand comics from 1977-1983. This meant that all the action of a Star Wars film had to be crammed into six issues (or, in the case of Return of the Jedi, a mere four).

    

Read a digital comic on How to Create a Digital Comic using Flash

 

Cartoon Inking in Adobe Illustrator (video tutorials)

 

Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past

In the hopeful years following the Second World War, armed with new technologies and vivid imaginations, almost anything seemed possible to a society straining to break free from the cycle of earthly strife. Science fiction writers and visionary artists of the aborning Space Age applied their talents to picturing a grand future beyond the wild blue yonder. Some things they got right - others, not so much. These 15 examples highlight these visions of retrofuturistic space flight and the dreams of what could be.

 

 

 

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