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 4 of : Making Comics
Today I want to talk about Character and Story.
And we’re going to get to draw dinosaurs!
In the book Storyworthy, Matthew Dicks, breaks down story into a simple formula. An unfortunate aspect of making art is that at some point you need to pay attention to craft and technique. You need to know how the magic trick is made.
He uses the first Jurassic Park Movie as an example and reveals that it is not a story about dinosaurs. What then is the story of the movie about?
When you discover what the story is about… what a story is…
Then to you at least, some of the magic becomes lost.
What you gain in return is an understanding of the craft, the inner workings and mechanics. Today I’m going to demystify some aspects of story and character.