How to Draw Comics by Ilya

130 Pages·1·43.718 MB·English

by  Ilya

HOW TO DRAW
C O M I C S
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Copyright © 2017 by Ilya
All rights reserved
This edition published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-1-61373-903-7
First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Lom Art,
An imprint of Michael O’Mara Books Limited
9 Lion Yard
Tremadoc Road
London SW4 7NQ
Cover design: Dan Mogford
Interior typesetting: Mark Bracey
Ashcan BB Font © 2007 by Nate Piekos
Printed in the United States of America
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THIS HERE IS ART.
Goo?
A
H
AND THIS HERE ART’S A A
! H H
A COMIC... T
F
F
F
INTRODUCTION 3
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THIS IS A PAGE.
THIS IS A
CAPTION.
I think,
These
therefore
are thought
...
bubbles
And
these are
speech
balloons
Because
I say
They
are
EACH SEPARATE FRAME IS A PANEL.
PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE
THIS IS A
A COMIC.
Ugh
If this is
ART, it
stinks!
OR, IN THE CASE OF THE BABY’S LAUGHTER,
DISPLAY LETTERING (LIKE A TITLE OR LOGO). (YOU DRAW A FACE HERE)
4 PANEL BORDER
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This book
will tell you
everything that
you need to know
to draw your own
comics
Not only
tell you, but
show you
In
Comic
Strip
form
Taking
a trip into
realms of
Including imagination.
practice Whoaah!!
exercises
Blank
parts for
you to fill
in...
INTRODUCTION 5
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Q.
WHAT IS
THIS ?!
A COMIC IS...
T ...or
A
Words
just
H plus
Images
W Images
A

S
I
?
C
I
M
O
C
A.
NOT A FILM STRIP,
BUT A MOEBIUS LOOP
(LwOeOllK, nITo tU Pqu OitNe.L IIN cEh.e.a.ItTe’dS). L OF AGES
E M R
ABNYY I TSSINEGLLE I COMPLICATED! ODNSE APNACDNO/MORIC I EITHE
A CFO IS MNAGE WONR’T A
MIC OT ISDon’mte
OFA JSUESQTU WENOCRED S c‘aPlrlo f’
IS NOT A COMIC
M
E
H
(THAT WOULD BE UT T R...
...JUSTO RA NC AILRLTUOSOTNRATION AO PRA RAA PGOREAMPH), TBOUTG PETHE
MOEBIUS BECAME THE PSEUDONYM
(AN ADAPTED “ART NAME,” LIKE...ILYA!)
OF FRENCH COMICS MASTER JEAN GIRAUD
(1938-2012). MORE ABOUT HIM...LATER!
6 DEFINITION
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SEQDTTUOOHEE ENBS CENSE T’LTO OI RNHFYEA ,AE VORVEE.R.N .TS, HAITV ED OTOE SMNA’TK EA LSWEANYSSE ITB UTTO, , IFIT YOU
W
D A
S E N
H FI T
O NI
U T
L E
L
D. Y
.
...in a .
Sequence*
* A SEQUENCE
REQUIRES THAT THERE
BE MORE THAN ONE
...telling ME...
L OF AGES a Story DESPITE THE NA
E M R
E PAN/OR I EITHE
ORODNS AAN CDOMIC Ado “esC onmotic ”
W ’T have to be
N
IS funny
THE POSSIBILITIES
...ARE !
INFINITE
7
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Despite
Painting
all that
as we know it,
...
is thousands of
years old
Simple
is often
best
Sculpture,
rock carving
Comics,
...
...started k by comparison,
u
B
millennia u k have barely
B
even before begun
A R K
that u K
B
UG
For now,
We’ll return
exactly how
to this idea,
your comics
later
work...
...
is up
to you!
8 DEFINITION
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THERE ARE
COMICS 101
RULE
NO
N . 1
o
RULES
The Rules of
comics are T
not written
HOU
yet
SHALT
NOT...
And
if they
were?
To borrow a
phrase from
“There is
a certain
no fate
popular movie
but what we
franchise...
make...”
“The
future’s “...for
not set” ourselves”
DERDUMDUMBUHBUM
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