The perfect gift for aspiring artists and fans of comics, graphic novels, and manga, this guided sketchbook provides templates and blank pages? for graphic storytelling, along with ideas, tips, and tricks from comic artists.
Whether you're just getting into sketching or are a practiced artist, this colorful, engaging guided sketchbook provides a mini-course in graphic storytelling with with plenty of blank pages and templates to help you get started on your illustration journey.
Learn by example through artwork, tips, and tricks from seven established comic artists, all with differing styles and backgrounds. Explore the art of making comics via funny and engaging exercises that show you how to convey emotion, time, and perspective through drawing, sequencing, storytelling, and character creation. The expert guidance in this sketchbook will help you develop and expand your drawing and storytelling skills, allowing you to unleash your true artistic potential.
Contributors: Simon Bailly, Ruth Chan, Joel Christian Gill, Brian Herrick, Hyesu Lee, Dan Not, and Daryl Seitchik.
A guided sketchbook with templates for graphic storytelling, with ideas, tips, and tricks from comic artists.
This colorful, engaging guided sketchbook contains a mini-course in graphic storytelling and hundreds of pages of blank templates. Designed for an adult audience with YA crossover, the notebook contains artwork from eight established comic artists, each piece annotated with tips and tricks, for example, 10 panels that always work. The journal also features exercises in character creation, storyboarding, and graphic narrative building. With differing styles and backgrounds, the artists offer illuminating and insightful ideas to expand anyone's drawing and storytelling skills. The book includes funny and engaging exercises for how to convey emotion, time, and perspective through drawing, sequencing, and storytelling.