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Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing.
Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines.
This helpful guide also includes practice pages to help put your newfound skills to immediate use. Learn all the drawing tips and techniques you need to create your very own comic book, including:
- Drawing basics
- Inking techniques
- Creating characters
- Drawing bodies in motion
- Designing characters
- Creating battle scenes
- Adding speech
- Developing a story segment
Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw
basic cartoon characters,
superheroes,
villains, and
more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you'll learn to draw
action scenes,
set up panels,
add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book
word treatments.
With approachable exercises, interactive pages, and action-packed projects to guide you,
The Art of Comic Book Drawing will help you find inspiration, learn how to create a story, and most importantly, develop the characters that will make your story come to life. So, grab a pencil and paper, and learn to create your own comic books, step by easy step!
List of contents
Introduction
Tools & Materials
Digital Illustration
Drawing Basics
Inking Techniques
Creating Characters
Heads & Bodies
Features
Hands & Feet
Bodies in Motion
Villains
Character Designs
Battles
Building Comic Characters
Bionic Hero
The Red Wraith
Evil Genius
Ninja Warrior
Megaguy
Ms. Mega
Thorn
The Bulk
Lady Electric
The Shark & The Tadpole
Adding Speech
Speech Balloons & Captions
Some Dos & Don'ts
Sound Effects
Creating a Story Segment
About the Artists
About the author
Maury Aaseng has always been excited about drawing and art. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design from the University of Minnesota—Duluth, Maury began an illustration career, and his freelance work has spanned a variety of subject matter and illustration styles, including cartooning, medical illustration, natural sciences, patient education, and watercolor. An avid nature enthusiast, Maury lives in northern Minnesota with his wife and two children. Visit www.mauryillustrates.com and maurymedicalart.com.Bob Berry has been an artist, illustrator, and character and graphic designer for more than 15 years. While the mainstay of Bob Berry's work is for children's publishing and textbooks, Bob has also provided art and illustration for CDs, children's games, toy packaging, and more. Visit bobberryillustration.com.Based out of Nottinghamshire, England, Jim Campbell is a professional comic-book letterer, one-time writer (perhaps again in the future!) and occasional artist (although his enthusiasm rather outstrips his actual ability).By day, Dana Muise is an animator working in the broadcast and TV cartoon industry. By night, he lives in the world of comics, monsters, and space creatures. When other kids were learning how to draw trees and clouds, he was perfecting his army of giant, clawed creatures as they prepared to battle the menacing space bugs on Planet Zoltor. The only thing he likes better than space monsters is teaching people how to draw them. As far as he knows, space monsters are real and we should know how to draw them before they get here. Dana attended Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He lives in beautiful San Francisco, California with his wife Leigh, a talented artist, and daughter Eva, who is his favorite little monster of all.Joe Oesterle is an award-winning writer and illustrator. He has worked as the Art Director of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle apparel division and performed double-duty as Art Director and Senior Editor at National Lampoon. His work has appeared on television, radio, books, magazines, and websites. Joe is especially proud of the fact that a humorous animated short he wrote, directed, and voiced has been on display at the Smithsonian Institution since 2001. Visit www.joeoportfolio.com.
