Learn to harness the drawings to find your vision
Learn to control anatomy, composition, clothing, details, light and shadow, exaggeration and stylization and more in this comprehensive introduction to drawing in the panel.
Course curriculum
-
01
00 - Introduction
Show details- Drawing for Comics Introduction
-
02
01 - Drawing the Figure in Gesture
Show details- Intro, links and resources
- Gestures and Figure Examples
- Gesture and Figure Demo
- Exercise: Draw 6 gestures from photos.
- BONUS: Connecting to History
-
03
02 - Drawing the Face and Expressions
Show details- Intro, links and resources
- Famous Artists Course - Cartooning the Head and Expressions - Complete chapter
- Exercise: Draw 6 expressions from photos.
- Bonus: Connecting to History
-
04
03 - Putting People in Spaces
Show details- Backgrounds and perspective: putting people in spaces.
- Exercise:
-
05
04 - Arranging the Elements in a Panel
Show details- Intro, links and resources
- Looking at How Pictures Work by Molly Bang - Video
- Molly Bang How Pictures Work PDF
- Drawing in the Panel PDF - From Tom Hart's Professional Comic Strip Book
- Exercise: Draw an image from a fairy tale
-
06
05 - Composing Shots and Panels
Show details- Composing Shots and Panels
- Composing your Panel Video
- Composing Your Panel PDF
- Video: More about Staging Your Characters
- BONUS: Lessons From the Classic Disney Handout
- BONUS: Storyboarding the Simpsons Way
- Exercise: A range of shots and angles
-
07
06 - Putting it all Together
Show details- Final Assignment - Session 1
-
Sidney Davidson
Instructor Bio: