The ever-friendly and ever-helpful comics expert, Scott McCloud, has posted a straight-forward tutorial for creating lettering and panel borders using Adobe Illustrator. He makes it simple and easy to understand, and, after reading parts 1 and 2, you’ll no longer have any excuse notย to finish a comic!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXT6H7-480&feature=player_embedded] Word balloons, line variety, using layers, editing, adding panels, starting pages from scratch, duplicating images…it’s all here and Doug TenNapel shows you how in Manga Studio.
I came across CTRL PAINT the other day, while poring over inking techniques and processes. CTRL PAINT is a website completely dedicated to helping you learn digital painting in Photoshop through a series of simple videos and tutorials. If you’ve ever wanted to start painting digitally, but have been intimidated by Photoshop, or if you…
Joey Weiser makes the fantastic Cavemen in Space comic (as well as Mermin, The Ride Home and Tales of Unusual Circumstance) and never fails to make amazing comics and characters. While some artists would scoff at the idea of sharing their tools and methods of working, Joey Weiser has posted a fairly in-depth guide on…
TUTORIALS / PROCESS / INTERVIEWS Coloring Comics Digitally with Kazu Kabuishi Using Photoshop Actions to Speed the Process Various interviews with comics writers, publishers and artists onย The Comics Journal The Personal Touch (audio recording of panel on personalizing your comics) How to Make an Interactive Comic video by Jason Shiga Understanding, Making and Teaching Comics…