A great place to learn about Comic

   Welcome to the Comiclopedia, an illustrated compendium of over 13,900 comic artists from around the world. Find your favorite artists, or discover new ones!

    Online since 1 November 1999, the Comiclopedia is the world's largest overview of comic artists, and the brainchild of comic shop Lambiek's founder Kees Kousemaker (1942-2010). Kees was at the vanguard of promoting comics as art, and both the Lambiek store and the website are continuing in his spirit. The editors of the Comiclopedia are Bas Schuddeboom and Kjell Knudde.

Flip book

There is always someone that creates art from our daily reality. The super heroes in time of COVID-19

Flip book created by Howard Lee

How to draw ... a comic stirp

A comic is a narrative structure based on two features: language and image. We can define a comic as a sequence of images which tell a story with the aid of a text.

How to make a comic strip (wiki) 

1. Writing a script (story, format, etc)
2. Flesh out your characters
3. Drawing your Comic
4. Print and publish your comic

Make beliefs comix. Online eductional comic generator.

Body Construction

After the example of different types of male bodies shown below,

draw the equivalent with the female body.

Onomatopeia project

Onomatopoeia. Is an enviromental sound presented without ballons, in bold or 3D text in upper case. Sometimes it has exclamations points. This is a method of drawing attention to text, it often highlights onomatopeia and reinforces the impact of words such as Bang or Wow.

To explain this exercise it is interesting to look at some artworks by the Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Watch the following tutorial: Drawing an onomatopeya.

Expressions.

Having fun with balloons!!!

 

Each student will draw a face on the balloon, afterwards a picture will be taken.

 

Pau. Atlas y Axis

    Pau Rodríguez Jiménez-Bravo, who signs just as Pau, is a comic book artist, graphic humorist and Spanish Illustrator, born in Palma de Mallorca, in 1972. His most recognized work internationally is the saga of Atlas & Axis.

     The Saga of Atlas & Axis is a series of comic adventures which is led by two antropomorphic dogs.

Pau came to our class and tought the students the history of comics and how to draw some popular characters.

Pau

 

 

Students sketches

How to draw 20 different emotions.

Head Construction

Pep Lluis

Pep Lluis

How to Draw ... a Comic Character.

Former Disney animator and director, Francis Glebas, shot a short video demonstrating how to draw one of his character designs, Iggy.

Check the video:

Working with ... comics. Drawing characters.

    Students have to draw two characters based on their description given to them. Even though, each work will come out different!!!

Working with ... comics. Faces and expressions.

     Shoo Rayner shows us how to draw 13 Faces of Fear!!! Check this video before trying to draw the exercises from your workbook.

Expressions:

Working with ... comics. Space frame.

    A panel, frame or box is one drawing on a page, and contains a segment of action. A page may have one or many panels, and panels are frequently, but not always, surrounded by a border or outline

  
    The student is given a number of images that has to copy and organize in his/her final composition. It has to add two extra elements and draw the motion lines.

Other examples:

                                                     Silvia Manzano

Drawing an onomatopoeia: Bang!

Comics

Questions:

1. When were the comics created?
2. What is a comic?
3. What does this mean? The teacher will draw some symbolia and balloons on the blackboard.
4. Can you name me a famous comic character played on TV?
   

Comic is a medium that uses both visual (non-verbal) and verbal language to tell us a story.

History_________________________________________________

• The history of comics has followed different paths in different parts of the world. It can be traced back to early precursors such as Egyptian hieroglyphs o paintings or the Trajan's Column (dedicated in 110 AD) in Rome.
• Through the 17th and 18th centuries, prints began to tackle aspects of political and social life, and also started to satirize and caricature.
• In 1845, the satirical drawings, which regularly appeared in newspapers and magazines, gained a name: cartoons. The newspaper comics served as further entertainment for mass readership. 
• In the 20th century, comics became an autonomous art media oround the world. 

Tomb of Narkaht, 15th century b. C.

Trajan's Column 

A page by Rodolphe Töpffer, 19th century

Publication formats                                                                       

      Comic Book is like a magazine that tells a long story (Batman, Superman, Mortadelo y Filemón, etc.) or a series of different stories and authors (TBO).

      Comic Strip generally refers to daily and Sunday newspaper publications. Many comic strips have been collected into comic books.