Creative iMedia
R097 – Characters and comics – Skills for making comics
These skills make use of Photoshop, which is my preferred way of making comics. Certainly it's my preferred way of editing images for comics.
There are some practical skills to develop here.
1 – Using panels and preparing assets
Panels to use – these are about 80mm by 80mm square
Some guides on how to prepare images:
Preparing assets for print quality comics
Another two images to work on – prepare and then use:
Preparing images quick guide – use with the piano image
Removing backgrounds – use with the firedrill image
Here are the images:
2 – Creating pages and panels
You're going to have to be able to create your own panels. Fortunately this is easy.
Preparing pages slides – slides from class
Instruction sheets:
3 – Word balloon skills
Word balloon – method 2 (Curvature Pen Tool)
Some more advanced methods:
Advanced word balloons – slides from class
Text gallery – examples
Some more detail on joined and linked ballons:
Advanced linked ballons – using the curvature pen tool