We want our comic pages to look good. But we also want to churn them out in a reasonable amount of time.
In this week’s video I show you how drawing MORE isn’t necessarily better. And how you can increase your speed by using your art skills to the max.
The perfect webcomic publishing platform doesn’t exist. But one or the other might be perfect enough for you.
This is the associated blogpost that goes with this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvU_yGreYZA Nowadays, we have many tools at our disposal to make comics. There’s all kinds of materials, tools, programs and apps. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the choices that we need to make when we start out.…
This blogpost has an accompanying video on my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu68FmjIHnM What is a good artist mindset when it comes to making mistakes and imperfect art? And what do you do when you hit a roadblock in your art? I’ll tell you what I did when that happened to me…
Welcome back to Pencils & Stories! Today marks the release date for the “new” Lion King movie and I though that was a perfect time to dive into the amazing cinematography of the original Lion King movie. The 1994 one. We’re going to talk specifically about the use of what…
One of the most powerful ways to tell your story through your visuals is by making maximum use of your composition. Which is the way you arrange the elements of your work on the page/canvas/screen. Composition is a vast subject. If you really want to dive deep into it I…
Hi and welcome back to Pencils & Stories! I took a little break in January. In the last quarter of 2018 I was hit with a lot of work and a row of medical issues. I spend the last month being very tired and in pain. I wanted to start…
