Drawing Comics Lab by Chapman, Robyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents About This Book Unit 1 You’ve Got Character

Lab 1 Building Characters Lab 2 Model Sheets Lab 3 Animals, Occupations, Emotions Lab 4 Character Creation Intensive Lab 5 Ten Cats Lab 6 Life Drawing Comics Lab 7 Copycat Lab 8 The One-Panel Gag

Unit 2 Page Building

Lab 9 Page-Building Basics Lab 10 Page Size and Reduction Lab 11 Stick Figure Strips Lab 12 Repetition, Repetition, Repetition Lab 13 Calling the Shots Lab 14 Panels and Pacing Lab 15 The Tier Lab 16 Cartoonists without Borders Lab 17 Turn the Page

Unit 3 Storytelling

Lab 18 Drawing without Stopping Lab 19 Show OR Tell Lab 20 Panel per Day Lab 21 Jam Comics Lab 22 Suspect Device Lab 23 On Location Comics Lab 24 Dream Diary Lab 25 Interview Comics Lab 26 Make a Map Lab 27 Talking Heads Lab 28 No People Lab 29 Found Text Lab 30 The 24-Hour Comic

Unit 4 Materials and Techniques

Lab 31 Comics Morgue Lab 32 Picking Your Paper Lab 33 Penciling Lab 34 Lettering Lab 35 Pen Power Lab 36 Inking with a Nib Lab 37 Inking with a Brush Lab 38 Mixed-Media Inking Lab 39 50 Percent Black Lab 40 Playing with Tone and Color Lab 41 Tag Team

Unit 5 Publishing

Lab 42 Make a Dummy Lab 43 Make a Mini Lab 44 Design as Content Lab 45 The Foldy Lab 46 The One-Sheet Lab 47 ABC Zine Lab 48 Creative Printing Lab 49 Creative Binding

Unit 6 Living the Dream

Lab 50 Go to a Comics Convention Lab 51 Write a Script Lab 52 Write a Proposal

Contributors About the Author Acknowledgments Dedication Copyright Page