Comic Making Tutorial (Part1of 4) Getting Started

I begin to dive you into my world of creating crappy looking comic art. Muhahahaha! Um. Ahem. Yep. Here's the link to Part 2 when you're done with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3b9L_oKh-0

And by the way, I do use a 12 inch ruler, so even though it looks like I don't, I do. I just couldn't find it when I made the vid. I even use it later on in the tutorials when I find it.

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Howto & Style

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• comic
• book
• comic-book
• tutorial
• tut
• drawing
• sketching

[MagicalLouigi]

amazing!! you draw stewie?? wth!!! i only hear voices not art

[eddiechinglives]

@MagicalLouigi You might want to click on part 2.

[CheeseWedgie]

Title speaks the truth

[eddiechinglives]

@CheeseWedgie If you ever want to do a draw-off, let me know.

[eddiechinglives]

@cartoonmaniac13kid I kind of figured that much from negative commenters like you. All talk, and they can't back anything up. I really value your opinion. Thanks for the comment.

[eddiechinglives]

@sonicspeed2009 I am to believe that you will click on part 2 of 4 to find out.

[chazz6666]

@SamHain1031666 they use the A4 paper because its formatted for publication. A4 deleter paper also has blue guidelines so the art doesnt get cut off when they go to print it (the center spine of the book). The quality of the paper is amazing too from personal experience. Its like a piece of poster board and pencil marks are very easy to erase on it. It's also thick enough for coloring, not sure how watercolor would be on it but copic markers work fine on it.

[SamHain1031666]

@julianaguilera Thanks, i just recently stopped using photoshop, corel painter 12 is better, both practically the same but corel is more built for artists, photoshops for photo editors

[julianaguilera]

@SamHain1031666 I do all my my work now on Photoshop. i did start with paper like all should. but yes some of us do it all in photoshop.

[eddiechinglives]

@SamHain1031666 I know. Just letting you know that's not what everyone does. If you can finish it all digitally, more power to ya. I know that's what the MyExtraLife dude does. I think Brian Bolland also went totally digital.

[SamHain1031666]

Totally, i wasnt knocking your work ethic, i just noticed that every single comic making tutorial ive seen online consists of someone taking an A4 sheet of paper and drawing the entire thing, so naturally it made me question whether they do it that way coz its better. Im trying to get my first comic started right now but i already know i could never create it on paper, mostly due to the inclusion of speech bubbles which are easy to make space for in photoshop, thanks for responding

[eddiechinglives]

@SamHain1031666 Not everyone does it that way. Some do digital comics. I know that some PROFESSIONAL comic artists do all digital comics. Most who draw comics on paper use 11x17 comic book paper. I use CHEAP computer paper because it's cheaper, and it takes WAY too long for me to draw digitally. I am much faster on paper, but that's just me. To each their own. It doesn't matter how the art gets there, as long as it gets there. Whatever tells the story and keeps the story moving.