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Editor's Notes
After all your planning, choosing, arranging and sketching, its now time to start drawing out the story.
No matter what style of image you choose, your picture’s first and most important job is to communicate quickly, clearly and compellingly with the reader.
Even when working in a minimalist style, you can still incorporate a wealth of real life details. With just a few lines, how specific can you get?
Learning to draw can help you communicate your idea more clearly. Classic drawing skills like anatomy and perspective can help you to render the forms in a your world convincingly.
But in comics, those characters and objects can be far more than just pretty pictures.How you draw the interior of a room for example can tell your readers a lot about the character who lives in itA minor detail in the art can foreshadow major developments in a story.
Shaun Tan uses a photo-realistic style to evoke imagery from photographs taken from Ellis Island in the early 20th century.
Shaun Tan uses a photo-realistic style to evoke imagery from photographs taken from Ellis Island in the early 20th century.
In a way the photographs become a metaphor for memories
But you can also use a limited palette of colors and a simpler drawing style to convey a different kind of mood.
Or maybe you want to combine two styles in one kind of story.In Bone, Jeff Smith draws some of his characters with a few fluid lines, while others have much more detail.Hope Larson switches to a sketchy style at the end of the page to imply that Hailey is growing up and the Salamander is a mere artifact of childhood like a child’s drawing.
