Beginner's Guide to Comic Art: Characters

by 3dTotal Publishing (Editor)

Your journey into the world of comic art begins here! 3dtotal's latest successful Beginner's Guide delves into the creative processes behind great comic art, outlining both the traditional and digital tools of the trade. Learn all about the comic workflow, from storyboarding to speech balloons, line art, inking, coloring, and background gradients. A comprehensive comic art theory chapter will help you get to grips with narrative, composition, perspective, depth, light, color, anatomy, and environments. Learn the tricks of the trade as top artists create a mini comic book from scratch, describing in detail their working process. A visual glossary of everything from bounding boxes to poses and expressions, plus a breakdown gallery, will also help you on your way to comic success!

Genres: Art, Comics

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2016

About the author

Originally a digital artist’s resource website, 3dtotal has grown into an industry-leading art-book publisher. Renowned for creating high-quality, inspirational, and practical tutorial books with some of the best artists working in the movie, games, animation, and publishing industries, 3dtotal Publishing sets the standard for modern art books.

Reviews

[Joey Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book is mostly artists walking you through their character creation process (which I enjoyed). I covers a little of everything but doesn't go in depth on any of the covered topics. Good mix of traditional and digital methods and techniques. The book also has a nice reference section in the back (which I found useful) covering weapons, hair and fur techniques, environment dressing, etc.