Drawing Comics : How to Make a Comic Book

Making a comic book involves developing story lines from panels, and it begins by setting up the scene, determining the characters and adding dialog. Create a comic book to illustrate a cohesive plot with drawing advice from a professional cartoonist in this free video on illustration and comics.

Expert: Bill Connolly
Bio: Bill Connolly's Bio Coming Soon
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• drawing
• illustration
• comics
• comic books
• cartoons
• comic strips
• cartoonists

[Xnaruto33]

Me and My best friend make comics since 3rd grade and im in 6th grade now.Its called Pauly X!

When I grow up I want to be a comic creator.

--Hope I make my dreams

[TArthurSmith]

Nice! I like the finished work. Here are some things to add. You need to design your characters thoroughly before you start the comic, What will they look like from different angles, and doing different activities. You need to consider your story. Each story has a beginning, middle, and end. For younger students, remember - every story is a mystery! Your reader won't know what's happening until you tell them, somehow in your work.

[DillonBrannick]

@RufflesArt definitely, go in with a light pencil first, draw your characters, then your bubbles and the go back over to finalise in pen.

[perfectionless]

I tend to rough out the drawings first to see how they'll fit. then I do Word ballons and then go back to roughing out the art :b

[RufflesArt]

could you somehow draw the chracters first then add the wording. Also are the writer for the cartoon also

[armcaredude]

lol thumps up if u make weird faces when you draw {i do} lol

[DaveTheSodaGuy0]

Doing the baloons first? That's totally the opposite of what I do

[JhonnyDaemon]

When I was a kid, all I wanted was to have my own comic book.

[87ONYX14]

tiny toony looney tooney mini characters....i hate that style.

[ahhhhhron]

wow. great. i never thought of that! dialogue firsts.. haha

[Dacurath]

I like to do the art, then scan and photoshop everything else. Text boxes are important but I never thought of putting them first...well see.

[futureanimatior]

@Xnaruto33 Dream big and you will go very far ^^