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Comics Crash Course : A Start to Finish Guide to Drawing Dynamic Comics
Comic books are more popular now than ever. Kids and adults avidly follow the tales of their favorite superheroes--and now, with the lessons in Comics Crash Course, they can create their own adventures!
Vince Giarrano has worked on some of the most popular comic books in the world, including Superman, Batman, Peter Parker, and Action Comics. Now, he brings his fifteen years of experience to bear on a book with over twenty demonstrations. Starting from the basics and working up to an intermediate level, he shows readers how to create: -Super heroes and villains -Animals and creatures -Robots and vehicles -Backgrounds and settings -And much more!
With clear, high-quality illustrations, this Comics Buyers Guide-endorsed book will also appeal to its target audience's taste for dynamic designs and colors.
128 pages, Paperback
First published September 9, 2004
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January 3, 2022
This book did not just tell what I should do if I wanted to create a comic book. This guide provided examples, instructions, and most importantly, it explained why I needed to do these things when designing the comic page; think of each page in a comic as a piece of art, and find what anchors the entire thing.
This guide provided valuable instruction on how to create panels and direct eye movement of readers, providing several examples and explaining the purpose of each style. This book was not just showy in its instruction, but actually went into reasons for the specific hints, suggestions, and instructions. That is a book that helps one learn, and not simply copy and repeat. It provides rules and tips so that I can think for myself, using artistic and graphic design tools I have learned (from this book, classes, other artists, and just real-life situations). It breaks things down into formula basically.
"What kind of story do you want to tell, what kind of comic do you want your name attached to? What is your audience, and how do you get them engaged? Why focus on all of it at 1 single moment? Why not break it up into smaller, more digestible pieces so that your end game is realized more fully? Well, here are the hints, rules, pros and cons of each, and here are instruments and tools you will need to achieve your goal. Now go create!"
This book explains how the profession has been done in the past, how it has changed, and then encourages the reader to make the next changes, without losing sight of the rules and such forth.
This guide also breaks down the steps one would need to get their work into a reader's hands. From collaborating with already set professionals, to how to burst unto the web-comic scene successfully, to the mindset one needs to possess to the grueling (yet fun and rewarding) work that is necessitated to create and deliver an entire universe of characters and stories. In short, this book is encouraging and positively beneficial in the regards of helping a creator learn what steps and actions are needed to create a comic book (and graphic novel).
This guide provided valuable instruction on how to create panels and direct eye movement of readers, providing several examples and explaining the purpose of each style. This book was not just showy in its instruction, but actually went into reasons for the specific hints, suggestions, and instructions. That is a book that helps one learn, and not simply copy and repeat. It provides rules and tips so that I can think for myself, using artistic and graphic design tools I have learned (from this book, classes, other artists, and just real-life situations). It breaks things down into formula basically.
"What kind of story do you want to tell, what kind of comic do you want your name attached to? What is your audience, and how do you get them engaged? Why focus on all of it at 1 single moment? Why not break it up into smaller, more digestible pieces so that your end game is realized more fully? Well, here are the hints, rules, pros and cons of each, and here are instruments and tools you will need to achieve your goal. Now go create!"
This book explains how the profession has been done in the past, how it has changed, and then encourages the reader to make the next changes, without losing sight of the rules and such forth.
This guide also breaks down the steps one would need to get their work into a reader's hands. From collaborating with already set professionals, to how to burst unto the web-comic scene successfully, to the mindset one needs to possess to the grueling (yet fun and rewarding) work that is necessitated to create and deliver an entire universe of characters and stories. In short, this book is encouraging and positively beneficial in the regards of helping a creator learn what steps and actions are needed to create a comic book (and graphic novel).
June 5, 2009
Good instruction on the drawing/storytelling side. A little less useful to me on the production side, though (blue pencils, etc). Using programs like the Smart Trace function in Illustrator, I can scan pencil drawings and put them together in a program like Comic Life. Now that's just THEORY. Whether or not I ever find the time and motivation to actually DO IT is another story....
November 14, 2013
it is a good book. it is about during comekbook. the best part is wane it tekes you to dur a comek series.
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