Learn to harness the drawings to find your vision
Learn to control anatomy, composition, clothing, details, light and shadow, exaggeration and stylization and more in this comprehensive introduction to drawing in the panel.
Course curriculum
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Drawing for Comics Introduction by Tom Hart
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Video Introduction by Sidney Davidson
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Video Introduction by Tom Hart to the 80-page PDF
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Drawing the Head and Figure 80-page PDF
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Intro, links and resources
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Video: Gesture and Figure Examples
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Video: Gesture and Figure Demo
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Exercise: Draw 6 gestures from photos.
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For Conversation: Are gestures like the alphabet?
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BONUS: Yuko Shimizu's Freddy Mercury Drawing
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BONUS: Connecting to Comics History
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Intro, links and resources
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Video: Basic and Specific Head Construction
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Video: Fun with Head Construction
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Video: Fun with Face and Expressions
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Some examples in animation
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Exercise: Draw 6 heads and expressions from photos.
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Bonus: Connecting to History
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For Conversation: Keeping Characters Consistent
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For Conversation: Are Emotions Universal?
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Backgrounds and perspective: putting people in spaces.
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Intro to linear perspective
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Perspective as Storytelling Element
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Hanging Head for Figure Placement
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Sidney's Perspective as Storytelling Presentation PDF
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Bonus Perspective PDF (From a few sources, 20 pages)
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Exercise: Horizon Lines and Floating/Hanging Heads
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Bonus: Connecting to History: Hilda Terry
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Extra: Perspective Grids
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Extra: Bringing it all Together
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Intro, links and resources
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Looking at How Pictures Work by Molly Bang - Video
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Molly Bang How Pictures Work PDF
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Exercise: Draw an image from a fairy tale
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Bonus: Connecting to History. The Dot and the Line (Video)
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Bonus: Drawing in the Panel PDF - From Tom Hart's Professional Comic Strip Book
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Composing Shots and Panels
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Composing your Panel Video
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Composing Your Panel PDF
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Video: More about Staging Your Characters
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BONUS: Lessons From the Classic Disney Handout
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BONUS: Storyboarding the Simpsons Way
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BONUS Video: Using angles for drama
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Exercise: A range of shots and angles
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About this course
- $249.00
- 46 lessons
- 2.5 hours of video content
Sidney Davidson
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