Basic principles to help you tell your stories more clearly when drawing comics! For ebooks and comics by Drewscape, visit www.drewscape.net/shop%20front...
This was so much fun to watch. I started making some sequential art last year and really enjoyed it. Now I feel inspired to do more! Love your videos and your style. Thanks for sharing your skills and know-how with us!
This is great, it is going to help me out immensely. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge on drawing comics. I’m so grateful I found your you tube channel. Can’t wait for more helpful tips and instruction. You make it easy to comprehend.
So good! Thank you for blessing us with your observations, I'm taking notes. I always love your comic & drawing insights, and your approachable, humble teaching style :)
Thanks for watching. Im glad I’m contributing something useful to the art community. And it’s encouraging knowing that it is received well. Thanks for the feedback, Colin.
As many have rightfully) pointed out this video is incredibly concise and informative! I can tell a lot of care was put into this video and it brings me joy! All the little changes to keep the video engaging, playing with language and formatt to match what youre teaching with the video media. You're an amazing comic artist, teacher, and video maker! This is genuinely an incredible video!
Brilliant! You're a great teacher. I've watched some other videos teaching the principles of drawing comics but you make it the easiest to understand, just like the way you guide your readers eyes through your comics ;)
Haha I hope you have fun at the comic workshop. Yeah perhaps these basics lay some ground work to build upon. Every artist will teach something different😄 but of course the real fun for me is when I can tell my own stories any way I want I my own comics:)
@@Drewscape-art Thank you! In particular, here are the specific similarities I noticed: In fiction writing, it's important to give information in the right order, to avoid confusion, just like how in comics, it may be useful to orient the reader with a wide shot. Fiction also "zooms" in and out, so to speak. To "zoom out," in fiction, the writer can use more impersonal language, to describe a scene in a straightforward manner, without overwhelming the read. To "zoom in," the writer can use more characterful or sensory language. You can even control time, in fiction, by changing the length of sentences, or by changing their rhythm. You can even use line-breaks to create physical space on the page, just like with comics, or by changing the length of your paragraphs.
Oh wow. Thank you for making that connection clearer. I can see that now and I can see how that works. Yeah in poetry books, they use space and line breaks control the rhythm and pace too. And wide and closeups in terms of description is a good way to see it. Love it. Thanks for taking time to write it out here:)
Drew, wow…thank you so much, this video was comic book making gold! So much wonderful info. You so beautifully clarified your process, I had light bulbs💡 going on over and over!! It’s always a joy to get your thoughts and insights 🎉😂👍🏽
Ha thanks for the note! Every comic artist will explain it in a different way. Glad you like my explanations and find it helpful. It makes all the effort feel worth it:)
Welcome! Well I can write comic but I’m still learning and figuring character development better myself. When I have a clearer picture about that, I may share. But I find that learning from scriptwriters on Film Courage really helpful. Especially this one: ruclips.net/video/U9V4rEQnle8/видео.htmlsi=je7hiFLTanIrSSsi
Thanks so much for the reply. I think I was confused about what I was asking. I guess I was trying to ask about how you came up with how your character looks. (The drawings of the people in your comics) It's very appealing to look at them, and the background are too. Thanks again for sharing your videos@@Drewscape-art
@@finley624 Ah thanks for clarifying. Yeah ok, I could go into how I draw characters at some point. And there are so many ways with so many mediums. But primarily, it always comes down to getting the tonal values right to make the scene look good. That part, I covered it here: Control where people look using tonal values ruclips.net/video/U0JM_xtRIa0/видео.html
The guy in the forest? That’s just one of the stories in my graphic novel, Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise. That one was drawing with a simple ball point pen on photocopy paper. With colours added in photoshop:)
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Love how straightforward and concise your lessons are. Just right to the point and described perfectly.
Thanks! I love trying to make things simple for myself and others:)
extremely concise and informative. Thanks.
The spacing advice is a great tip
Thanks Dr Bubble:)
This was so much fun to watch. I started making some sequential art last year and really enjoyed it. Now I feel inspired to do more! Love your videos and your style. Thanks for sharing your skills and know-how with us!
Yeah sequential art does seem to add another dimension to drawing. Glad that I’m able to encourage fellow artists in this area:)
This is great, it is going to help me out immensely. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge on drawing comics. I’m so grateful I found your you tube channel. Can’t wait for more helpful tips and instruction. You make it easy to comprehend.
I’m just sharing what I know so far and I’m glad that it’s already helpful in some ways:) Hope it helps make your comics even better:)
So good! Thank you for blessing us with your observations, I'm taking notes. I always love your comic & drawing insights, and your approachable, humble teaching style :)
Thanks for watching. Im glad I’m contributing something useful to the art community. And it’s encouraging knowing that it is received well. Thanks for the feedback, Colin.
As many have rightfully) pointed out this video is incredibly concise and informative! I can tell a lot of care was put into this video and it brings me joy! All the little changes to keep the video engaging, playing with language and formatt to match what youre teaching with the video media. You're an amazing comic artist, teacher, and video maker! This is genuinely an incredible video!
Thank you so much for your note. I’d glad makes sense and is well received:) hopefully it will encourage more artists to attempt to draw comics:)
genuinely such helpful advice
STOP TEACHING ME SO MUCH STUFF!
Now I have to go back and fix everything.
Hahaha!
You’re a great teacher.
I’m glad I managed to put it together in a way that makes sense😄
Thank you soooo much for these great instructions! And for the video itself which is as great as your wonderful comics.😊
This is one of the most informative videos on comics I’ve ever seen! Thank you!
Haha thanks! It’s just what I repeat to my students at school. So I thought, if I make a video, I won’t have to repeat so many times😄
I did one a few weeks back but I overworked it . I did get some good feedback though. Thank you for your tips. I’m making notes
It’s great u are practicing doing them! We do get better the more we do and figure out more stuff along the way:)
this is such a helpful video thank you! these are some really good basics that make any comic legible and understandable.
Glad u think it’s helpful:) Yes I think clarity of reading is probably more important than a very cool comic drawing style.
Clear explanation
Brilliant! You're a great teacher. I've watched some other videos teaching the principles of drawing comics but you make it the easiest to understand, just like the way you guide your readers eyes through your comics ;)
Aw shucks thanks. I still learning to teach better especially on RUclips. So this is a nice encouragement for me. Thank you!
Very informative.
Looking forward to control time 😊
Haha yes you can do it:)
Thank you so much! This was very helpful as I'm thinking of going to a comics workshop as a non-comics artist. 😅 Now I feel like I might blend in...
Haha I hope you have fun at the comic workshop. Yeah perhaps these basics lay some ground work to build upon. Every artist will teach something different😄 but of course the real fun for me is when I can tell my own stories any way I want I my own comics:)
Excellent! Holy cow thanks!
You're welcome!
It's interesting how much of this advice also applies to fiction writing. Great video! Thank you!
That’s an interesting observation. I will think about that. Thanks!
@@Drewscape-art Thank you! In particular, here are the specific similarities I noticed: In fiction writing, it's important to give information in the right order, to avoid confusion, just like how in comics, it may be useful to orient the reader with a wide shot. Fiction also "zooms" in and out, so to speak. To "zoom out," in fiction, the writer can use more impersonal language, to describe a scene in a straightforward manner, without overwhelming the read. To "zoom in," the writer can use more characterful or sensory language. You can even control time, in fiction, by changing the length of sentences, or by changing their rhythm. You can even use line-breaks to create physical space on the page, just like with comics, or by changing the length of your paragraphs.
Oh wow. Thank you for making that connection clearer. I can see that now and I can see how that works. Yeah in poetry books, they use space and line breaks control the rhythm and pace too. And wide and closeups in terms of description is a good way to see it. Love it. Thanks for taking time to write it out here:)
Thank you so much!
Thankyou. This was a stupefying glimpse in comic science. I love this so many thanks.
“Comic science”- I like that!😄
Drew, wow…thank you so much, this video was comic book making gold! So much wonderful info. You so beautifully clarified your process, I had light bulbs💡 going on over and over!! It’s always a joy to get your thoughts and insights 🎉😂👍🏽
Ha thanks for the note! Every comic artist will explain it in a different way. Glad you like my explanations and find it helpful. It makes all the effort feel worth it:)
So Good !! Thank u for sharing
Thanks Pearl!
Very handy, thank you!
Simple, precise and very useful. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
So glad you made this video. It’s very easy to understand. I’d love to hear you talk about character development and how you place them in scenes.
Welcome! Well I can write comic but I’m still learning and figuring character development better myself. When I have a clearer picture about that, I may share. But I find that learning from scriptwriters on Film Courage really helpful. Especially this one: ruclips.net/video/U9V4rEQnle8/видео.htmlsi=je7hiFLTanIrSSsi
Thanks so much for the reply. I think I was confused about what I was asking. I guess I was trying to ask about how you came up with how your character looks. (The drawings of the people in your comics) It's very appealing to look at them, and the background are too. Thanks again for sharing your videos@@Drewscape-art
@@finley624 Ah thanks for clarifying. Yeah ok, I could go into how I draw characters at some point. And there are so many ways with so many mediums. But primarily, it always comes down to getting the tonal values right to make the scene look good. That part, I covered it here: Control where people look using tonal values
ruclips.net/video/U0JM_xtRIa0/видео.html
Thanks for the helpful tips Drew
Thanks Deb:)
thank you . great great information
Glad it was helpful!
Great information - thanks!
Welcome!
Nicely put together video, always larn something new from you cheers :)
What is that @9:13 ?
The guy in the forest? That’s just one of the stories in my graphic novel, Monsters, Miracles & Mayonnaise. That one was drawing with a simple ball point pen on photocopy paper. With colours added in photoshop:)
@@Drewscape-art love it! real cool