1. A person running
2. A car speeding 3. A ball falling 4. A person staggering 5. A newspaper blowing in the wind |
Scenario 1: A ball crashes through a window into a kitchen and rips through the newspaper of a person sitting in the room. The person reacts to the window breaking. Optional: A dog catches the ball in mid-air after it comes through the newspaper.
Scenario 2: Person 1 trips person 2. Person 1 is laughing, person 2 is trying to catch him or herself and is knocking over a lamp. |
One Panel:
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Look at work:
Does the panel read correctly (generally left to right)?
What path does the reader's eye follow?
What are alternate ways of arranging the elements?
Does effect follow cause?
Does the panel read correctly (generally left to right)?
What path does the reader's eye follow?
What are alternate ways of arranging the elements?
Does effect follow cause?
Comic Jam
Choose a rule. Write the rule at the top. Finish 1 panel and trade with someone else. Keep trading until all the panels are complete.
Backward: Start with the last panel. In each previous panel, show what happened before.
Pay it forward: The first contributor draws with no caption. Then captions the next panel. The next contributor draws for the caption and makes the next caption. The last contributor must add the caption for the first panel.
Zoom in (or out): Each panel should zoom in or out from the previous panel.
Imageless: You can use words, sounds effects etc. but no representational images.
Monosyllables / Monotext: Each panel can only have one-syllable words or one word.
Snowball: Each new panel has one more object / character than the previous one. Can apply to text as well.
Melting Snowball: Same as previous, only one fewer. Start with 9 and work down...
Choose a rule. Write the rule at the top. Finish 1 panel and trade with someone else. Keep trading until all the panels are complete.
Backward: Start with the last panel. In each previous panel, show what happened before.
Pay it forward: The first contributor draws with no caption. Then captions the next panel. The next contributor draws for the caption and makes the next caption. The last contributor must add the caption for the first panel.
Zoom in (or out): Each panel should zoom in or out from the previous panel.
Imageless: You can use words, sounds effects etc. but no representational images.
Monosyllables / Monotext: Each panel can only have one-syllable words or one word.
Snowball: Each new panel has one more object / character than the previous one. Can apply to text as well.
Melting Snowball: Same as previous, only one fewer. Start with 9 and work down...
Captions
Add captions to the previous single-panel drawings.
Create a new single-panel captioned drawing.
Add captions to the previous single-panel drawings.
Create a new single-panel captioned drawing.
Panel Sequence & Editing
Each person draws 4 or 5 panels of their assigned section of the story.
1. An astronaut launches his rocket...
2. land on the moon...
3. and plants a flag.
4. He returns home to much fanfare...
5. But then he realizes he has gone to the wrong planet.
Put panels up in order. How can you adjust pacing -- add or subtract panels? Or edit the panels you already have.
What can be edited out entirely? How few panels can still tell the story?
Each person draws 4 or 5 panels of their assigned section of the story.
1. An astronaut launches his rocket...
2. land on the moon...
3. and plants a flag.
4. He returns home to much fanfare...
5. But then he realizes he has gone to the wrong planet.
Put panels up in order. How can you adjust pacing -- add or subtract panels? Or edit the panels you already have.
What can be edited out entirely? How few panels can still tell the story?
Figure Practice
Draw figurettes by tracing over photos.
Draw figurettes by tracing over photos.
Lettering
Choose your quote
Pick a quote or section of published work for your comic.
Pick a quote or section of published work for your comic.
Thumbnails
Using panels, pencil out sequence of events with text from quote, just rough sketches.
Revise with tracing paper as needed before starting final comic.
Using panels, pencil out sequence of events with text from quote, just rough sketches.
Revise with tracing paper as needed before starting final comic.