🍂 advice for drawing comics? :'D

Posted 11 months, 28 days ago by tommocoast

heya, question is as the title suggests. I've always been rlly interested in drawing little oc comics (nothing super long form or anything, just bits and pages for lore and story beats!) but find things like scripting and composition and details/backgrounds etc to be pretty tricky

I don't suppose anyone has some advice or references they use that help them out with em? Anything's good honestly, thanks so much :'D

honeydont

if you haven’t already i’d check out “understanding comics” by scott mccloud! it’s one of THE texts used for comic theory, it lays out how and why comics work in a really straightforward manner (:

Strix

Can second scott mccloud! Dude obviously loves and understands comics, reading his books or listening to him talk about comics is always very nice and fascinating :)

Besides that im gonna drop a bunch of links talking about panelling and speech bubbles (excuse the messiness im on mobile and too lazy to embed them in text)

https://twitter.com/h0lysarthole/status/1117464886123089921?s=20 overall comic page composition tips

https://twitter.com/evegwood/status/1231975507773837319?s=20 speech bubbles and creative lettering

https://twitter.com/insertdisc5/status/1174092202684964864?s=20 time=space and impact of speech bubbles 

https://drawingden.tumblr.com/post/624984553604497408/heres-the-first-half-of-slides-from-my-comic even more bubble tips mostly for getting tone across

https://at.tumblr.com/unregisteredcat/616273523369967616/zkbpcsz69tpo and finally more cool composition and panel layout tips

The more comics you draw the better you get at figuring these things out yourself too, so just go wild!

tommocoast

oml you're both life savers! seriously thanks a million, i find it way too easy to get discouraged when compositions don't feel like they're working out but i'll keep trying with these!

parfaitheart

Thirding Scott McCloud! Probably the best book on art I've ever read