Hello friends and welcome to the
sixth part of the article. Guess what? You are reading this, which means you
are hungry for more stuffs. Great!
So long, we have been hovering over random
topics about comics and making you familiar with the comics making world. If you are reading this from the very
beginning, you know how to make simple comics, have the basic idea about
drawing with shapes. Plus terms like inking and various kinds of dialogue
bubbles are no longer new thing to you. That’s great!
So, let’s start getting deeper!
Let’s talk and make a small
comics strip with you guys. Get on with your weapons and let’s start!
Wait! We need a quick story. How
do we make it? Hmm… let me search today’s newspaper for topic, nothing
interesting. Same with the TV, maybe internet has something good to inspire.
Let look around for a while.
What a mosquito? Flying I front
of me, I can’t think of anything if this annoying mosquito keeps flying in
front of me. Guess something is wrong with my eyesight, missed to hit it away
three times. Well sometimes it happens that you can’t find any concept and you
feel like giving up and blah blah…
Wait a minute, “MISS”, hmm… a
double meaning word. You know such double meaning words can make simple gags
very easily. So, today the mosquito is the messenger for the fresh gag. What
came up in my mind is something like this…
A student sitting is a silent
class and a strict math’s teacher is busy solving a sum on the board. The
student is bored, very bored. Just then a mosquito flies in somehow. Our bored student tries hitting it away. But
he misses it and hits himself, sighs and unknowingly says “MISS”. The teacher looks back and asks “Yes!”
Now when we have a simple story,
we can break it down to scenes to make it easy to draw.
1. A boring Math’s class our hero
is sitting idle.
2. A mosquito comes in.
3. Tries to hit it away.
4. Unknowingly says misses and
hits himself.
5. Teacher looks back.
Next is planning the layout and staging the characters for our comic
strip.
Making sketches according to the plan.
Inking it.
Dialogue Texts
Drawing appropriate dialogue bubbles
Then finishing the look with adding the heading etc. which makes it
look better.
Pretty easy right? If you try
making one and are not satisfied of the output, don’t worry. For no one can
give a hits show in a row, flops are a sign of upcoming hits. Keep making
comics and having fun. Gradually, it will get into your fingers, takes a little
bit time.
by Simmi Singh simmi@fagangstuffs.com
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