May 8: Drawing Comics

Due 5/5 - Splash Images

Due 5/7 - Understanding Comics 2

Warmup

Doodle a three or four panel comic sequence of your choice.

Use only actions and sound effects, no dialogue or narration

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

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: How to read and define comics.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: We have come to the last unit of our class! We are going to move on from creating single pieces of art and start creating illustrated stories. Before we can create our own comics, we need to think about how to read comics and how they are structured.

HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: You will read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud to help you define the word "Comics". Then you will read a comic page posted to our class website to practice transcribing comic scripts.

Assignment - Create Comic Panels Using Photoshop Guides

Criteria:

You will draw a row of three small panels and one large panel.

Your panels will have straight edges.

Your panels will have space between them, otherwise known as a "Gutter".

You will use these panels to create a one page comic introducing the main character from your elevator pitch

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.

May 8: Drawing Comics

Due 5/5 - Splash Images

Due 5/7 - Understanding Comics 2

Warmup

Doodle a three or four panel comic sequence of your choice.

Use only actions and sound effects, no dialogue or narration

Expectations:

Assignment - Create Comic Panels Using Photoshop Guides

Criteria:

You will draw a row of three small panels and one large panel.

Your panels will have straight edges.

Your panels will have space between them, otherwise known as a "Gutter".

You will use these panels to create a one page comic introducing the main character from your elevator pitch

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.

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

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