How to Outline Characters for Comic Strip

Video Transcript

"Now that we finished our first step of inking, we're going to move onto the next step, which is outlining your characters. We're going to take a slightly thicker felt marker this time and we're going to basically trace it around our character. This is just going to be around our character. We're not going to outline the table here or anything else. What we're doing here is we're emphasizing our character in the strip. It's easy with all these lines, diagonal, straight, squiggly for your characters to get lost. This extra outline will help our character stand out among the natural clutter and noise you're going to have in a comic strip. This is definably something you want because you want the man emphasis to be your characters. No matter what's going around them, your strips are going to live and die by having really cool characters with a lot of emphasis on them. At the same time, whenever I have a character piece like this hand, which is down around objects. I tend to outline my characters when they're up in space. Whenever there's a bunch of other things going on around them like table, a bookshelf, I tend not to outline them. That's very much my discretion and style. You may choose to outline your entire character there."