[ SECRET POST #2916 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2916 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[lb_lee]

Seconding McCloud. I actually make and sell comics, and McCloud was what started me off. His Understanding Comics is good too.

Here's also some of the things I do:

* Draw from life. Take some of your arty friends and crawl over an art museum, a park, or a pet store, and just draw whatever is there that interests you. You can do it literally ANYWHERE. I drew people on the subway, trees at the park, the house across from mine, baby animals at the pet shop... seriously, it's great. Once you learn the structure of a thing (be it the base architecture of a house, the skeleton of a hamster, or the trunk of a tree) you can learn to simplify and stylize it more effectively. STRUCTURE FIRST. STYLE LATER.

* Read comics, from EVERYWHERE. Learn their conventions (McCloud talks about them too) and see which ones work and which ones don't. Once you learn the structure of how comics work, you can learn what works and what doesn't. Learn from other people's mistakes.

* Check out the "masters." Osamu Tezuka, Will Eisner, people whose work have withstood the test of time. This isn't to say not to read new stuff (see the prior point), but this old stuff has stood the test of time. Why? Find out, and learn it.