Friday, July 14, 2017

Day 8 - Turning (in) the final page

We spent a week discussing, reading, writing, drawing, inking, lettering, and coloring. Thanks for being cool kids who like telling cool stories with words and art. Thanks for being comics crazy.
Here are our (almost) finished products:









Day 7 - Inking and coloring

We are finalizing our comics, inking our pencil lines, lettering our text, and making decisions about color.








Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Day 5 - Thumbnails and layouts

It's time to translate our scripts into panels. We have started laying out our first pages.






Monday, July 10, 2017

Day 4 - Scripting

This week we are writing, drawing, inking, and coloring a three-to-five-page comic. Today is writing day!








Planting story idea seeds

We are using Chris Van Allsburg's book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, the internet, and our imaginations as a launching point for a short comic. Today we are writing our scripts.



From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg

From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg




Day 3 - Wide shot to close up...




Day 8 - Turning (in) the final page

We spent a week discussing, reading, writing, drawing, inking, lettering, and coloring. Thanks for being cool kids who like telling cool sto...