Incredible Comics with Tom Nguyen: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Kick-Ass Comic Art

by Tom Nguyen

Kick-start your comic book career! In the comic book industry, cookie-cutter artists just don't cut it. In this book, professional comic book artist Tom Nguyen shows you how to make your work stand out from the Populate your world with convincing heroes, villains and citizens ... Pump-up the drama with perspective, page design and other powerful techniques ... And, ultimately, put it all together to tell kick-ass, action-packed stories! You'll learn how Illustrated with dos, don'ts, and tons of step-by-step instruction, this is a real-world guide to the skills you need to make it as a comic book artist. Armed with these inside secrets and tricks-of-the-trade, you'll be more than just another good artist, but a bona fide, super-hero-style storyteller!

Genres: Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2007

Reviews

[Guy Haley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tom Nguyen makes no bones whatsoever about what drawing comics is about, titling different sections of book how to draw “Stud Muffins” and “Babes, Gals and Kittens”, and having his advice illustrated by a sexy blonde in a bikini called Tay. For Nguyen, it’s all about the flesh, and really, when it comes to most comics, that’s true. This book is actually a fairly decent guide to the comic artist’s world of exaggerated anatomy, other aspects cover perspective, scripting, inking… You name it, the whole lot is in here. Unlike some other books like this, it’s overflowing with personality, and Nguyen isn’t afraid to come down hard on those who he thinks don’t put in the graft to get the basics right. He’s a hard teacher, but fair, because he provides plenty of advice and examples to help you get it right. Too often the advice in artbooks is ephemeral and useless, and you can’t say that about this one, although you do have to forgive Nguyen his muscle fetish and the photographs of girls in bikinis clustered round him.