Every month I drop a new 5-Day project, to help you add some variety to your daily creative practice, or to serve as a ramp to gently invite you back in if you’ve fallen off. Whether you make art for the pure joy of it or if you’re a working creative professional, I encourage you to try a Ten Minute Artist practice.
The practice of creating something for yourself daily, even if only for ten minutes.
In this project we’re going to talk about MAKING COMICS
One last thing before we begin: I’m starting another cohort for Gameplan: How to be an Artist on July 6th and you can get a preview by turning that on here.
Welcome to Day 3 of : Making Comics
Comics work via a particular kind of magic.
By drawing a frame or a panel you are enlivening that space. Within the frame with words and pictures you capture a scene, a moment in time in all its detail and character. Then you draw another scene.
But that neither panel is where the magic happens. Your two scenes are merely an invitation for the viewer to experience the magic.
But you cannot make the viewer happen, the viewer does.
Today we will talk about six transitions you can create between panels, but in order to use them effectively you need to understand how the magic of comics work.