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May 13: Drawing Comics

Due 5/5 - Splash Images

Due 5/7 - Understanding Comics 2

Doodle Warmup

Doodle any image of your choice from your comic

If you don't know what to draw then doodle this chameleon on a stick.

Expectations:

C: Voice Level 0 (no talking)

H: Raise your hand

A: Work on the assignment

M: Stay in your assigned seat

P: Work till assignment is completed

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: How create a comic.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: This is final puzzle piece of our class. Put all you've learned together to make your own illustrated narrative.

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will draw panels and images that illustrate the story idea you created with your elevator pitch.

Comic Assignment - Introduce Your Protagonist

Criteria:

Followed Panel Layout Guidelines:
- Three small panels and one large panel.
- Panels have straight edges.
- Panels have space between them, otherwise known as a "Gutter".
Polished line work (not sketchy)
Drawn in color OR detailed texture/value shading.
Clear story idea
Focus and Engagement
- If you finish your first page, start drawing another one.

WORTH 100 POINTS. DUE NEXT WEEK.

Introduce Your Protagonist

These are the first panels of a comic project that I worked on back in 2017. By the end of the first page, using only images, these panels show information about the main character, their environment, their culture, and their goal.

How much can you pack into your protagonist's intro page?

Pencils, Outlines, and Value

Refine your illustration by working it over in multiple steps

Step 1: Pencils

The first thing I did was sketch; drawing fast and loose to work out my idea for a panel composition.

Step 2: Ink Outlines

After had all the elements of my panel composed, I traced over my work in a NEW LAYER to get my outlines polished and clear.

Step 3: Ink Color

Once my outlines were in place, I added value shading in crosshatched lines.

Create a Comic Page with Panels

Create a new canvas in Photoshop.

Make sure you select the "DEFAULT PHOTOSHOP SIZE"

You can choose to make your canvase landscape or portrait orientation. (I went with PORTRAIT, meaning it's taller than it is wide.

Create guides on your canvas.

Click: View -> Guides -> New Guide Layout

Make the settings in the panel that opens match those you see in the example to the right.

After you add your guides, click on the "View" tab again.

Go back and make sure that there is not a check mark next to the "Snap" setting

Now your page should look like this.

Nine rectangular boxes with a little cushion around the edges of the page.

Now we will trace these boxes to create a specific panel layout.

Remember that you can hold down the shift key to draw perfectly straight lines vertical or horizontal.

REMEMBER TO CREATE A NEW LAYER BEFORE YOU START DRAWING

I want you to trace these boxes to create panels for a comic page.

First, create one row of three boxes.

Then trace one big panel around the rest of your boxes; that's three of your guidelines wide and two guidelines tall. Depending on whether your canvas is portrait or landscape, it will look like one of these two examples.

Use these panels to create a one page comic that introduces the main character from your elevator pitch.

Videos about Comics

Previous Lessons

Imaginary Landscape

Perspective Final

PS Perspective Tools

How Colors Are Made - Video Questions

Atmospheric Painting

Environmental Concept Art Analysis

Two-Point Perspective

Linear Perspective Vocabulary

Atmospheric Perspective - Project Reflection

Doodle Project

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