Get full access...

Want to feel warm and fuzzy??

If found us through one of our creator's links they'll get 50% of the sale!! That's how much we love our contributers!

Section 1

Getting Started and Initial Design

This first session introduces the course, the concept of "combo design" to construct characters, and then how to create a character sheet.

Section 2

Ideas and Environments

Paris explains common mistakes people make when creating comic strips. He also teaches you how to brainstorm in a way that will always foster ideas for stories, gags and jokes! He also presents his script for the final three comic strips drawn in the series. The session also discusses Line of Action and how to draw background and environmental art.

Section 3

Fonts and Drawing a Complete Strip

The first video in this session teaches font and lettering technqiues. Then Paris begins the first of three fully realized strips. Watch in real-time as Paris sketches the entire three panel strip, cleans up his work, and then polishing off this classic black and white strip.

Section 4

Two Complete Strips and Publishing Tips

Paris demonstrates in real-time his step by step process from sketching, to clean up, and then coloring a horizontal strip and a full paged silent strip. The final video covers marketing and self-publishing tips.

Category: Illustration  -   Primary Software: Autodesk Sketchbook  -  
Tags:   comic strips - how to draw - comics - professional - cartooning - illustration - sketchbook - sketching - humor