Drawing Comics Lab

Drawing Comics Lab
Author: Robyn Chapman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592538126

Do you dream of becoming a comic artist? Drawing Comics Lab covers all of the basic steps necessary to produce a comic, from the first doodle to the finished publication. This easy-to-follow book is designed for the beginning or aspiring cartoonist; both children and adults will find the techniques to be engaging and highly accessible. Featured artists include: - James Sturm - Tom Hart - Jessica Abel - Matt Madden - Eddie Campbell - And many others Start your comic adventures today with Drawing Comics Lab!

Drawing Comics Lab

Drawing Comics Lab
Author: Robyn Chapman
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1610586298

Learn all the basics of producing a comic from the first doodle to the finished publication—includes fifty-two exercises for aspiring comic artists of all ages. Do you dream of becoming a comic artist? This easy-to-follow book is designed for the beginning or aspiring cartoonist. Both children and adults will find the techniques engaging and highly accessible. Featured artists include: James Sturm Tom Hart Jessica Abel Matt Madden Eddie Campbell and many others Featuring fifty-two exercises meant to jump-start your creativity, this book will guide you toward effective ways to tell stories visually. It offers tips for creating and building characters, creating panels, storytelling, publishing and establishing good professional practices. Start your comic adventures today with Drawing Comics Lab!

Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists

Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists
Author: Carla Sonheim
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1610580966

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.

Cartoon Cool

Cartoon Cool
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Christopher Hart's Cartooning
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823005879

One of the world's leading cartoon artists shows readers how to capture the retro look of Sponge Bob, Dexter, and other popular comics, revealing how to recapture the 1950s in cartoons.

The Art of Painted Comics

The Art of Painted Comics
Author: Chris Lawrence
Publisher: Dynamite
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606903535

The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross — one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents — is the most important, most comprehensive prestige hardcover retrospective of the history of painters in comics, of all time.

Making Comics

Making Comics
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780060780944

Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.

Drawing Awesome People at Work

Drawing Awesome People at Work
Author: Damien Toll
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1477754865

Chefs prepare excellent meals. Olympians train to be the best in their sports. Astronauts pilot big spaceships and wear space suits. These are just a few of the people readers learn to draw as they follow step-by-step instructions and look at colorful images of each finished product. Facts about a variety of careers are presented to readers in a creative way as they practice their drawing skills. Helpful sketches guide aspiring artists through the drawing process, so they can create their own amazing works of art!

You Can Draw Comic Book Characters

You Can Draw Comic Book Characters
Author: Spencer Brinkerhoff III
Publisher: Walter Foster Jr
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1633228665

Learn to draw comic book characters with easy, step-by-step drawing projects, and then design your own superheroes and villains. You can draw more than 30 comic book characters by following the simple instructions, step by easy step. Once you are comfortable with the comic art style, move on to design your own heroes and villains. Tips and techniques for customizing faces, hair, bodies, and action poses will have you drawing your own characters in no time. No complicated tools are needed. You can create comic art with just a pencil, pen, markers, and paper! The book opens with helpful sections on tools and materials, essential drawing techniques, color basics, and an examination of faces and basic muscle structure. This ensures that you know the basics before getting started on the step-by-step projects that follow. Included throughout the book are templates to scan or photocopy and practice on over and over again. Itin between the drawing projects and templates are closer looks at costume design, anatomy, perspective, and dynamic action poses. Drawing a character flexing, flying, running, kicking, or zapping is easy with the included tips and techniques. Written and illustrated by Spencer Brinkerhoff, Just for Kids: You Can Draw Comic Book Characters is perfect for any comic book fan, regardless of artistic skill level.

Mastering Comics

Mastering Comics
Author: Jessica Abel
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781596436176

A new course of material to accompany First Second's widely acclaimed 2008 comics textbook. In their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2008's comics textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, School of Visual Arts cartooning professors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel bring their expertise to bear on the "second semester" of a course of study for the budding cartoonist. Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and file formatting, Mastering Comics is a vital companion to the introductory content of the first volume.