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How to Add Text to Comic Strip

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Summary: How to add text to your comic strip by using your blue pencil to sketch the text prior to inking; learn this and more in this free online art lessons about creating comic strips taught by experienced cartoonist and graphic artist Matt Cail.

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Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others. Over the years, Cail has used a variety of styles in his paintings, ranging from realism to...read more

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"Next, we're going to cover how to letter your comic strips to put words onto your page. Basically, I recommend doing your lettering very similar to how you have done the rest of your comic strips starting off with your blue pencil. You could have a problem here. If you have a problem doing lots of lettering. If you have atrocious handwriting, another option to this is getting some stencils. That can spare you from having to go through and letter yourself. If you're up to the challenge and you don't mind lettering, it's pretty easy. Just generally try to make all the letters right about the same size. Essentially, they're in all caps. There are no lowercases. You don't want that at all. That can get very hard to read. In addition, you always want to make sure that you're writing in print and not in cursive. Again, kind of like the swoops and curves of cursive can also be very hard to read."

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