How to Make Comics - Marvel's The Art of Storytelling
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Discover the art of comic creation featuring top Marvel artists, designed to teach you the secrets of captivating visual storytelling.
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One of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies with more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media © 2023 MARVEL
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
We're a hub for artists to improve their skills and connect with a community of like minded peers and talented mentors.
LESSON NOTES
This is your introduction to storytelling the Marvel way! We’ll be covering nine topics in this course, from writing stories, to penciling, to character design, and cover design. We’ll also be covering the materials needed for this course like a sketchbook, pencils, erasers, and paper. Assignments will be given at the end of each section, and premium content resources are available in the full course.
Course instructors:
Jim Zub
Ryan Benjamin
Mark Morales
Mike Hawthorne
Aaron Conley
Alitha E. Martinez
Sanford Greene
Daniel Warren Johnson
Matthew Wilson
E.M. Gist
CB Cebulski
All materials shown in these videos are not sponsored and were recommended by the instructors on their own.
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The first lesson of ‘Marvel’s The Art of Storytelling,’ is now available! Each week features a new lesson on the stages of the comic creation process from some of Marvel’s top-tier artists.
This discussion board is available for premium students.
Bought this a while ago and have been putting it off. Time to get going and get those ideas out of my head and onto some paper!
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8mo
Looking forward to seeing your work!!
Just purchased the course. I'm excited. I've always been decent at drawing, but always have to look at objects to draw. I've never been professionally trained. I'm hoping this course (as a Marvel comics fan) will teach me how to be able to freely draw comic style characters of my own stories/adventures.
Proko + Marvel ? ... Am I dreaming? ... Yahooo!!! .. Shut up Proko and take my money :) :) :) ...
Hello everyone, this is my first time in the proko website and I’m very excited to start this class.
So quick question, everything has to be shared w/in the course discussion and no work can be distributed to Marvel for review that I definitely understand, but if I really nail a project, am I free to post that on my personal page or social media? Let me know thanks.
I'm really enjoying the course so far, and I'm excited for the planned content! However, one thing I don't see mentioned in the overview is lettering! Will that be part of section on panel design? Are we going to discuss lettering at all (in terms of balloon shape, placement of text, different strategies for indicating emotion, feeling, different types of speakers, etc.)?
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2yr
Good question! Lettering won't be covered in this course, but it could be something we try to tackle in a future free video. If we end up using a Marvel artist maybe we could even add it to the bonus section of the course.
The course is really exciting ! Are we going to learn how to draw characters in dynamic poses , too? I find it difficult and I want to improve on this , that's why I ask !!!
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2yr
Yep, there will definitely be lessons on dynamic poses and acting in the Character section!
What equipment is required for the coloring section ? I ask because I do not have a tablet or any similar device and I have never worked on digital coloring or drawing. Do I need to buy a tablet or something similar ? Or I will be able to complete the coloring section with traditional ways of coloring ?
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2yr
The coloring section will be one of the last in the course, but we used Photoshop and a Cintiq when Matt Wilson was in the studio coloring comics. A screen tablet and Photoshop isn't required, though digital coloring is the standard in the comic industry.
You could get a non-screen tablet like a Wacom Intuos tablet or a tablet from a different company. If you're looking for an alternative to Photoshop, then Gimp is a free one, and Clip Studio Paint is also a cheaper alternative to Photoshop.
Additionally, you could color your comics on a tablet like an iPad in Procreate or one of those tablet digital art programs.
Hope this helps!
No equipment is required, if you want to use color pencils, that would be enough.
It is just that the video will show coloring digitally since that is considered more convenient, but they have emphasized that you can do the coloring traditionally as well.
Hi,
When will the next video appear?
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3yr
a new video is now available for you to watch!
I'm so excited to start the course and see what everyone makes! I just finished college and started compiling my portfolio, this course will be good practice and content to build on top of my portfolio. Especially because I want to go into concept art and character design for comics, video games, and hopefully be able to make variant comic book covers as well!
Yeah, just signed up for the course! I really can't wait to get started. I'm a bit disappointed that there is only an introductory lesson online. (I'm impatient, I know 😂) When is the 1st class available? Good luck to everyone who signed up!!
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3yr
I know it's hard wait, but we've got plenty of content coming to you over the next 40+ weeks.
Hello! Every one! I am Malaysian University student from Japan. I apologize to late contact, and I really exciting to participate the course so much!
I am still during busy semester, so might be too late watch the lesson sometimes.
I would like to confirm where can I check the assignments in this course?
Thank you!
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3yr
Assignments will become available for you as the course progresses. There's currently no assignments for you to start with.
Quick question: Are the assignments marked? Do they have a due date to be submitted? Thank you.
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3yr
If you want to have a chance at having them reviewed by the instructor then yes. We'll make sure to clearly mark the due date on the assignment page as they're released.
Unfortunately, we can't guarantee everyone will have their work critiqued but our instructors will try to do their best to review as many submissions as possible.
Can anyone simpify the "user agreement contract" that was kinda slaped at us after we purchased the course ? :)
1. You get limited license to use Marvel intellectual property in this course ONLY.
2. You can share User Submissions ONLY in this course.
3. Don't bother Marvel with work from this course.
4. Be nice to people, and don't share offensive work.
5. You agree with Proko's regular terms.
Basically be nice and whatever happens in the course stays in the course.
Quick question: are the lessons released every Wednesday or at the start of every week?
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3yr
We expect to release something new to you every Tuesday or Wednesday.
Unlike our previous courses, we do have to go through an additional approval process with Marvel so there might be some scenarios where something gets pushed to Thursday or Friday.
I have been dreaming of a course like this for a long time. I cannot even remember my life before comics. So excited to dive in and hopefully create my own book one day. Really looking forward to being a part of this community as well. Best of luck to everyone, I can’t wait to see what comes of this.
so a new lesson comes out every week for 9 weeks?
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3yr
It will probably be over 40+ weeks. There's a lot of content for us to release.
