You’ve drawn your reduced size layout, now it’s time to transfer it to a full size page and start penciling.

In this lesson, we’ll continue rendering our comic page by lighting our refined rough in.

In this lesson, I take my thumbnail sketches and refine them with proper perspective and work out some of the details.

In this critique, I take a deep dive into comic layouts, emphasizing storytelling, composition, and visual clarity in dynamic scenes.

It’s time for your assignment! Your first step to making your own comic page is to piece together your layout with thumbnails.

In this lesson, we’ll start working on the rough in for our final page.

Let’s move on to panels 3-6, focusing on line weight, shadows, and backgrounds.

It can be easy for line weight, shadows, and texture to become visually overpowering. I'll show you how to work through this process without it detracting from other elements as I work on the second panel.

Let's dive into the details of our first panel by adding line weight and shadows. We'll also discuss the important things to keep in mind while working on backgrounds.

As I finish the rough ins of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th panels, I'll share tips relating to storytelling elements, working with writers, and the challenges that come with drawing at a smaller scale.

Let's establish perspective and basic forms outlined in our layout. Then, we'll add details and worldbuilding elements to the second panel.

In this lesson, we work on the perspective for panel 1 and refine the “Rough-In”.

Let's establish rough sketches of our scenes for the second page of our comic without getting bogged down in details that would be difficult to reproduce later.

In this lesson, we move onto page 2 of our comic and work on the lay-in.

Now that I've finished sketching and inking my page I can scan it and clean it up so that it's finally ready for the publisher.

In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how to produce a gestural look with your inking, using a push and pull process over a loose pencil drawing.

In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how to ink lush backgrounds without distracting from the figures in your panels.

In this lesson, I’ll work on rendering figures in the fifth panel while offering tips to help you keep your inking clean and precise.

Join me as I work through inking the third panel of my page all while sharing tips to help you streamline your inking workflow.

Let’s talk about some of the more modern inking tools on the market and how to use them!