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Summary: Making a comic book involves developing story lines from panels, and it begins by setting up the scene, determining the characters and adding dialog. Create a comic book to illustrate a cohesive plot with drawing advice from a professional cartoonist in this free video on illustration and comics.
Bill Connolly has been cartooning and writing comics all of his life, and his comics are published regularly. He spent some time drawing for Disney in his younger years.read more
"Hey, I'm Bill Connolly, your cartoonist and artist extraordinaire. Have you ever wanted to make a comic book but didn't know how to do it? Basically you set up a scene. You have, it's; it's one panel. Every comic book is made up of stories made up of panels, and you want to set up the balloons first. When I do my comics I always start off with the; let's see, make this in a stadium here and start off with your dialog, and then fit the characters in around the dialog. This guy is saying boo here. Maybe he's a crazy parrot at a, at a football game. You can put in the stands here and then give a mother cheering for her child who's on the other team. She's got her hands up. She might be jumping up and down; that way. See, so you got a basic, basic layout of where the action will be. The finished strip, that's just a layout. The finished strip will look something like this. This is one I've done: Leah Fabrea copyrighted 2009. And it was the same way. What I did was went in, this banner's always the same and then this is actually a strip about my daughter when she was little, she's in her twenties now but I went through and made the dialog first; did all the dialog first and then I knew where I could fit in all of the characters there. That's how it ends up. I'm Bill Connolly, your cartoonist and artist extraordinaire. And that's how to get started on making a comic book. Good luck to you."
eHow Article: How to Make a Comic Book
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