Plotting comics for beginners [2022]
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- In this video, i discuss Plotting comics for beginners, so if you have ever wondered how to plot a comic, this video is for you. Making comics is hard and it can feel like a daunting task, especially when you don't know where to start. Well, this channel is chock full of tips for making your first comic. So if you are looking to start making a comic book in 2021 make sure you subscribe and ring that bell so you don't miss out any future content, because I am sharing my entire comic making process. So, lets learn how to plot a comic from start to finish!
Because, IF I CAN MAKE COMICS...ANYONE CAN!
Hi Guys,
My name is Matt Garvey and I'm a comic writer from the UK.
at comic cons, i always get asked: "how do you make a comic?" "how do you start?" "how do you find an artist?", so i want to help YOU take your first steps into making your own comics!
I'm going to share my entire process from developing my ideas to scripting,
to find an artist, to what to do when you get the art back...all the way through to selling your comics at comic cons!
So, hopefully, this will help!
In this video, i'm going to not only explain what a comic plot is, but i'm going to plot it LIVE in the video...so you can see just how my crazy little mind works!
Below is a link to my drop box where you can download MY Comic plotting document, so you can use it to plot YOUR comics!
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Hey, guys, If you are a regular to the channel thank you so much for the continued support.
If this is your first time watching my videos, thanks for stopping by...hope you like what you saw.
Below is a link to the first video to the series, so hopefully that helps!
ruclips.net/video/ZKYnr3k_ubg/видео.html
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Matt
I have been a published comic author since 1991. I use Index cards to do the plot. I write what I want to happen in the scene and the cards allows me to move around the scenes until I'm satisfied with the story. Then I breake down the individual scenes to pages and try to have a cliff hanger on the right hand page.
Yeah I used to do that too…but I’m too messy and would lose them ha ha ha so moved to digital.
Thanks so much for watching
Wow. Stumbled across this video and it is one of the most interesting I have seen for a long time. It's an incredibly useful description of the process. Thank you!
Thanks for watching matey! Glad you’re enjoying it 👍
Thanks Matt - that was really helpful -- 20 ! I prefer the longer videos. looking forward to the next one !
Cheers for the love and the feedback...much appreciated
😂😂"Otherwise he's just some guy moody on the rooftops scouring the city."
Honestly, watching this video was alot of interesting fun and it's done so cleanly. One of my biggest worries in the creation process is considering what happens around the things I want to happen & need to happen.
I've kind of dubbed it "The In-betweens." Should I be worried about this so much?
Cheers I’m glad you enjoy the videos ☺️.
I don’t think you need to worry.
If you bullet point the story out with those things you WANT & NEED to happen, it becomes a game of connect the dots…and in your head you start working out how to get to where you NEED to go….and sometimes the WANTS don’t happen because the story starts to shape itself.
Hey Matt, I recently subscribed to your channel as it has help me improve my planning between me and my artist-collaborator. I am the writer, and your videos have helped me put a lot of things in perspective, including simplification and efficiency. I wish you all the best with your comics - which, by the way, do you have a link to your site in which I can purchase some?
Awwwww cheers buddy thank you so much for the compliment abs the views!
I really appreciate it.
My comics…well you can get them from Garveycomics.com 👍
This is so different from how I've been plotting my comics so far (more or less) but I'll get to that later because I want to bring up what I started thinking when you got to the end of plotting. To me, what you had so far (at page 17/18) just sounded like the beginning of a story. It would be cool to dive more into the body horror and slow Walt slowly transforming and being overcome with horror. He would seek out help at a hospital, but this would be futile. What I'm thinking might become a different story entirely; exploring the idea of man vs monster/beast. The hardest thing would be avoiding recreating The Fly.
Anyways. You plotted this comic a very unlike how I have been plotting my comics. It is similar in some regards, but I tend to plot the the whole storyline or "season" of a comic before focusing in on the issues. Then I move on to making a few rough outlines of my idea before making something more solid. I haven't even thought about the pages or panels yet for any of my stories. I've written a few short drafts in order to visualize where I want to take the story and to help narrow down what each panel should be and how many pages I'll need. Something like this I would use when I'm sure about my story, as the first step to turn it into a comic.
No worries, buddy…we all work our own ways! 👍
This is just a “fill in” issue of a other story that we are doing so it’s part but is also a self contained story and before I’ve got to the “plot” I pretty much know where I want to go so I’m filling in the blanks 😜
another great video mate.. these are giving more and more reasons to try and write my own comic..
Awwww, cheers, buddy. Appreciated. Now go write your own comic...YOU CAN DO IT!
How dare you kill the pupper. I'll never forgive you for this.
In all seriousness, your channel has been such a huge help so far. Been watching your videos and taking notes. Planning to start writing a few one shot comics to start out, and definitely gonna use your guide. Keep it up, can't wait to learn more from you regarding comic making!!!
Ha…had to be done!!! 😜
Also I appreciate the kind words and I’m glad you’re finding it useful, buddy!
I’m so glad I’ve found this channel, so helpful. Very much looking forward to getting started.
cheers buddy...thanks for all the nice comments across the videos!
appreciated 😊
make sure you hit that subscribe button and hit that notification bell....because I’ve got some great videos coming up! 😜
Well done Matt! I love the document you use, I usually just plot in evernote with bullet points or a numbered list but seeing "page turn" would be really helpful. Oh and 20 and under is perfect.
Awwww, thanks, buddy...I appreciate the comments
Dude this video is extremely helpful , thank you!
My first comic is gonna have a shout out to your channel for sure
Awwww cheers dude, honestly no need.
I’m just glad it helped.
Thank you for watching 👍
this is amazing! thank you! I've been outlining a comic idea for a few weeks now and wondering how to translate it (and worrying I didn't have enough) while breaking it down like this is making me realize I might have too much stuff and have to edit or reorganize some stuff.
No worries, dude…glad it helped
Love this and that document (will be knicking that) and anything up to 20 min is fine👍
awwww, cheers, buddy...and no nicking needed...the document is all yours gratis! ;)
This is really helping me with my story and i was mainly typing it in a play format. Now seeing this i can really plan things out and see how things will go. Thank you for the advice and keep up the awesome work you do.
Thanks so much, buddy!
So glad you found it helpful!
@Matt Garvey Hello i went to open the form in google docs and started working on it and i didn't realize it was on your doc thing and i tried to put things back the way they were so i am sorry about that. Im somewhat new to the google docs so sorry again wont happen again.
Ha it’s all good matey, no worries 👍
1:29 People should bear in mind that this is only for saddle-stitched book formats. Perfect bound books (which are usually much longer) can have an amount of pages that doesn't have to be a multiple of four.
Absolutely.
My mantra of 4 spreads across all my videos for various reasons 😜
Countless videos I have watched but this one, this has helped moi a lot
No worries buddy. Glad it helped
THank you so much! This INVALUABLE!
My pleasure buddy glad it helps
Really useful Matt... and Matt... Thanks again.
Ha...my pleasure.
Thanks so much for the support
Hi Matt, its been a while (I came off twitter!) just started you videos and what can i say? great work as always!! i went to download your plotting page layout from your google drive link but it bought up something different? thought i would bring this up in case its something that shouldn't be seen and also as i think the plotting page would be helpful!
Hey buddy great to hear from you. That’s strange I can see it in there, but I’ve just reuploaded it so have a look and if it’s not there let me know.
Right link is in there now sorry...
It’s here too
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pbzn2bWLznMvQ1CjDfbAUBDdWkIZs3i_?usp=sharing
@@MattGarveyComics brilliant thanks Matt. Enjoying the series and look forward to watching more.
Cheers dude appreciate the love and support 👍
10! Great advice and lesson.
Awwww cheers dude
Hey,
New to your channel and new to writing. Started writing a novel last year and whilst doing so had an idea I liked for a comic. Came across your channel It has really helped alot.
Using this format just plotted out my first issue! Thank you very much!
P.S.
Any recommendations on comics you have liked?
My favourite two I read last year was darksad and old man logan.
Awww thanks for the love dude!
Much appreciated!
Glad the Channel is helping.
As for comics I love…
Waaaaaaaaaay too many to list but I’ll try a couple 😜
Moore’s swamp thing
Daredevil: father
Old man Logan
Major bummer
Cowboy ninja Viking
I hate fairyland
Fatale
Manhattan projects
Saga
Murder falcon
Gave them a lookover think I'll start with I hate fairyland and swamp thing first.
Me who works at a digital press and makes booklets weekly: Ah, I see you are a man of culture.
I wouldn’t go that far 😜
0:16 I don’t know why that scared the hell out of me but it did xD
scared me too...I have no idea where he came from...or scarier still...where he went! 😜
I loved that first part 😂😂
thank you!
My pleasure buddy
I like your videos, but please get a mic for a louder sound. It makes it very heard for somone to listen to your video while working or driving, cannot watch CC the hole time.
Sound gets much better in later videos, matey.
When I first started I could only use my phone, but now I have a nice camera with a decent mic. 🤪
Thanks!!!
My pleasure dude
john wick of the seas......lol. great.
Ha if you like that you’ll love my latest comic…I took a hammer to hell. It’s John sick in hell 🤣
I didn't see that document in the Google Drive link. Is it available somewhere?
Hey buddy great to hear from you. That’s strange I can see it in there, but I’ve just reuploaded it so have a look and if it’s not there let me know.
@@MattGarveyComics I see a document in there, but it's not the blank planning document I was looking for. But I made one in Word that helps with those even-pages "reveals" and two-page spreads. Thanks for the video and inspiration!
I may have gone overboard 24 pages. My idea just needed more I can't lie. Is that okay?
You make your comics as long as it needs to be, matey. I’m just giving my opinions 😜
LOL No blank pages in a comic! Unless it's dictated by the story (Zero Hour by DC), there really shouldn't be any blank pages. You are paying for it, put something there. Anything.
zero yeah is totally the exception to the rule! :D
But u already have the whole story written by now or this is just the main ideas of each page?
Just the story beats for that issues.
So you have a start…and hopefully an end.
Plotting will help you connect those dots and stop you from getting lost.
Hi,
Quick question I see you plan your comic in 24 pages of comic.
Was wondering why this is instead of 22 as I am new alot of online sources say a 24 page comic is actually 22 due to advertisements etc.
I’ve always just done 24, give the reader a bit extra, plus 24 works out better for printing because it’s a multiple of 4 pages so no blank pages.
Most marvel and dc comics are only 20 now too
@@MattGarveyComicsthank you for the reply.
I thought it was a 22 page comic in a 24 page print out. The other two pages publishers use for advertisements or a question column, but I do like the sound of more comic for your money.
Used to be 22 but I’ve seen loads that are now 20 and still chock full of adverts too.
how did he find a artist,some one to draw it for him
Social media, dude…Twitter, message boards back on the day
You killed the dog!?
always!
Do you use a three act structure?
Yes but it’s slightly different than writing a screen play because I like a movie we need multiple midpoints
@@MattGarveyComics do you have any videos with a page breakdown of inciting incident etc. ?
Yeah a few 😜
How To Write A Comic Book Scene (2022 & Beyond)
ruclips.net/video/2GlwHX6x5SE/видео.html
How To Write Comics, Not Movies!
ruclips.net/video/FV4gv6CZ28E/видео.html
What Is A Call To Adventure In Comics [Comic writing tips #1] (2021)
ruclips.net/video/nri4vURpyr0/видео.html
Littruhlee
Don’t know what that means, but ok 👍