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Comics - Thumbnail to Layoutby *Inkthinker

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I've always wanted to draw comics, and never been very good at it. I've had three separate experiences in attempting to seriously draw compentent comics pages, and though each time I improved as an illustrator, there is so much more to the comics page than illustration skills alone. I've become a fairly good illustrator and animator with a career in the business, but the comics page has continued to elude me.

Only recently have I felt a breakthrough, and in the past two weeks have been creating some of the best comics work of my career as an illustrator. And it was my final grasp of the THUMBNAIL and LAYOUT stages that have made all the difference.

The tutorial presented here is a step-by-step following of the technique used to create the pages of my ongoing comics project "forever blue". I hope that these steps might also help other artists who are struggling to become the best illustrators they can be. While this tutorial focuses on the comics page, the thumbnail and layout stages of illustration can be used for anything, and the ending results are invariably finer works. It does require a bit more work that simply creating the finished piece all in one go, from imagination to final creation, but if we take the time to create significant underlying structure, we have a more solid foundation for excellent illustrations.

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~BJBushell Apr 8, 2012

nice i like it

*Inkthinker Apr 11, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks! It's still about 90% accurate towards how I draw comics now. Although today I do it all digitally, I still thumbnail/sketch/finish in that order, and it's still important to lay in dialog prior to roughing out the drawings in order to direct the flow of the eye. If you're still working with paper and boards (and why not? Originals sell!) then the levels adjustment still works the same way it did seven years ago.

*evanesces Jul 22, 2010

BRILLANT!

*Inkthinker Jul 24, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

I'm glad you like it! It's different in some ways from how I do it now, but it's still good information for anyone using pencils and scanning.

~TexMexComics Nov 11, 2007

This is great, thanks so much!

~BabushkaYaga Aug 1, 2007 Professional Filmographer

very interesting, helpful and inspiring. i've only started developing interest in comics and layouts lately, and this is just the kind of stuff i need for motivation.

thanks for the effort you made for us n00bs.

*Inkthinker Aug 7, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

Everybody gotta start somewhere.

~Studiohq Jul 8, 2007

Wonderful idea and also thanks for the information on what it DOESN'T cover. Gives me an idea of what to look up!

Bravo

*Inkthinker Jul 8, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks! This is still the way I build pages, when I do build pages (which isn't often enough), but it's made even easier in Photoshop or Manga Studio, because I can draw the thumbnail, scale it up to full size, draw the rough and then draw the finished lines all on the same page, keeping each one separate and yet able to use each to build the next.

~Tinak Aug 25, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

i gots a little idea from this!

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