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 5 of : Making Comics
Comics employ words & pictures to communicate.
But one thing that is sometimes misses is that words in comics ARE pictures. The art of lettering, is the art of Drawing, not writing letters. As an artist, shifting from writing letters to drawing letters helps your words have more clarity, emotion and impact.
And if there is one piece of advice that yields tremendous results it’s this:
Draw your letters, not write them and draw them slowly.