Intro to Comic Craft

Intro to Comic Craft: Step by Step

Storytelling within the Comic Page, Composition, Shot Choices, and Layout

Brainstorming and Development:

Introduction

Brainstorming and Character Development
Character Design

Script and Thumbnails:

Developing a Script

Turning Your Script into Thumbnails and Layouts

Creating Thumbnails
Planning an Illustration Using Photoshop
Creating Thumbnails/Iterations Quickly and Easily in Photoshop
Converting Your Thumbnails Into Roughs (includes blueline tutorial)

Thumbnails Vs Roughs Vs Finished Pages- Watching Art Develop

Roughs:

Introduction to Roughs
Environment in Roughs
Scanning Your Blueline Roughs

Digitally Correcting Roughs

The Finish On Your Comic

Inking
Using Calligraphy Pens for Inking Borders: Intro to Comic Craft
Cicada Summer Inking: Intro to Comic Craft

Lettering
Selecting a Font
Placing Text Digitally
Text Balloons

Demonstrations
Skate on By- SCBWI Illustrator's Contest Process
Cookie Roll Commission Process
Classroom Conundrum- A Watercolor Process

Video:

Intro to Comic Craft:
Thumbnailing Your Comic
Roughing It

Perspective:
You Need Perspective (tutorial)
Perspective in the Panels (tutorial

Traditional Inking:
Intro to Comic Craft: Inking a Comic Traditionally

Handlettering:
1 Weird Handlettering Trick (tutorial)
Brush Lettering Timelapse (demonstration)

Digital Lettering:
Super Easy Lettering Hack

Mini Comics:
Hourly Comic Day Demonstration
Concept to Scripting to Roughs

Assembly:
Black and White
Color

Cicada Summer:
Intro to Comic Craft: Planning Cicada Summer (process)
Character Design in Colored Leads (process)
Intro to Comic Craft: Cicada Summer Roughs (Process)
Cicada Summer Roughs Flip Through
Printing Cicada Summer Bluelines
Cicada Summer Borders and Bubbles (process)
Cicada Summer: Pencils and Inks (process)

Guest Posts:

Amy Stoddard of Fine Sometimes Rain (process)
Joichi and Creating The Story Through Characters (tutorial)
Kabocha and Comic Process: Linked (process)
Breakfast on a Cliff (process)
Guest Post: Sskessa and Comic Process
Guest Post: Respheal of Galebound on Advertising Your Comic

Kickstarter Promotions:
Interview with Chris Paulsen, Creator of Precocious
Hana Doki Kira Kickstarter Announcement
A Voyage to Panjikant, a graphic novel by Marguerite Dabaie
Nika Tan on Creating a Graphic Novel
Kickstarter Fulfillment and Shipping
Knight School Process Post and Kickstarter Announcement
Guest Interview: Heidi Black and the Art of Electric Abyss
Alakotila and Printing in Grayscale

Comic Distribution
A New Online Comic Magazine: StArt Faire