Comic book Creation

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: History of comic books all over the world in 3 min

Lecture 1: History in 3 minutes

Chapter 3: BASICS OF DRAWING: The face

Lecture 1: Introduction and first steps

Lecture 2: More details to the sketch

Lecture 3: From a simple form to a detailed face

Lecture 4: Drawing with ovals is simpler

Lecture 5: Proportions for the profile

Lecture 6: About proportions

Lecture 7: The basics of the profile, part 1

Lecture 8: the basics of the profile, part 2

Lecture 9: the basics of the profile, part 3

Lecture 10: How to create an eye, part 1

Lecture 11: How to create an eye, part 2

Lecture 12: How to create an eye, part 3

Lecture 13: How to create an eye, part 4

Lecture 14: How to create an eye, part 5

Lecture 15: How to create an eye, part 6

Lecture 16: How to create an eye, part 7

Lecture 17: Drawing emotions, part 1

Lecture 18: Drawing a head from a real skull

Lecture 19: Drawing a comic book face based on a photo

Lecture 20: How to draw an eye

Lecture 21: Drawing mouth

Lecture 22: Drawing emotions

Chapter 4: BASICS OF DRAWING: hands

Lecture 1: The first thing to learn while drawing hands

Lecture 2: Using 3D models to help you

Lecture 3: Sketching different poses

Lecture 4: Drawing hands from pictures, inking to colors example

Chapter 5: BASICS OF DRAWING: Legs

Lecture 1: Drawing legs

Lecture 2: How to draw feet

Lecture 3: An exercice to help you drawing legs

Lecture 4: Legs and natural positions

Lecture 5: Example of natural position while drawing an illustration

Lecture 6: Full illustration creation, based on the motion

Chapter 6: BASICS OF DRAWING: Proportions, muscles

Lecture 1: Main axes for muscles, part 1

Lecture 2: Main axes for muscles, part 2

Lecture 3: Main axes for muscles, part 3

Lecture 4: Main details to draw muscles of the back

Lecture 5: Drawing torso of a man

Chapter 7: How to draw legs with basic sketching techniques

Lecture 1: Sketching with pencil, part 1

Lecture 2: Sketching with pencil, part 2

Lecture 3: Sketching with pencil, part 3

Lecture 4: Sketching with pencil, part 4

Chapter 8: BASICS OF DRAWING: Arms

Lecture 1: The basic rule

Lecture 2: A first exercice

Lecture 3: Drawing arms

Lecture 4: Drawing arms, part 2

Lecture 5: Other exercice to draw arms

Lecture 6: Drawing the back of a woman

Lecture 7: Man and woman's arms

Lecture 8: Drawing a man with arms up

Chapter 9: poses and movements

Lecture 1: Characters in movement

Lecture 2: Poses of women, part 1

Lecture 3: Poses of women, part 2

Lecture 4: Drawing woman in movement

Lecture 5: Poses or an Orc, based on a sketch

Lecture 6: From a simple sketch to a completed illustration

Lecture 7: Drawing the chest of a woman

Lecture 8: Lopsided posture of a woman

Lecture 9: Drawing a man flying

Lecture 10: Drawing with a low angle shot

Lecture 11: Drawing high angle shot

Lecture 12: Drawing a man jumping a wall

Lecture 13: Drawing a man couching

Lecture 14: Drawing a man running

Chapter 10: INKING YOUR DRAWINGS AND COMIC BOOK PAGES

Lecture 1: Presentation

Lecture 2: What you are going to learn

Lecture 3: Starting with a very simple drawing to ink

Lecture 4: Example of inking from a picture

Lecture 5: Inking a full comic book page (Warcraft)

Lecture 6: Inking an unfinished sketch (Thanos)

Lecture 7: Inking technique: The explosions

Chapter 11: Comicbook illustration from the pencil to Photoshop coloring

Lecture 1: Sketching first

Lecture 2: Starting the inking

Lecture 3: Finishing the inking

Lecture 4: Coloring in Photoshop

Chapter 12: Colors in Comics

Lecture 1: Introduction to color

Lecture 2: The two simpler techniques to color your comic books

Lecture 3: A more complexe technique and a demonstration

Lecture 4: Playing with the colors to create atmospheres

Lecture 5: Creation with color only

Lecture 6: Example with a Jim Lee black and white illustration

Lecture 7: Three different coloring techniques

Lecture 8: How to select the shadows and light parts while coloring

Lecture 9: Coloring an eye

Lecture 10: Coloring an arm

Lecture 11: The difference between Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint

Lecture 12: Example of coloring the Silver Surfer