Going back through the archives, you’ve seen and read about ways to develop your own comics. In this post, I will be showing a group of videos on how other artists create their print and webcomics. Some have commentaries, others are tutorials. Many of the techniques I have mentioned in earlier posts apply, with the artists personal workflow methods injected into the core process.

Here are a few examples:

This first video is done by EXTRA LIFE webcomic creator Scott Johnson. He talks about how he developed this particular webcomic strip about the joys of late Christmas shopping. Scott offers a number of time-saving tips while he discusses certain aspects of his process during this time-lapse video.

In this three-part video series, Brett Lamb from LessonBucket decribes the process used in creating a Frank Miller “Sin City” noir-styled comic book. The process is very easy and effective for creating a comic book, using mainly photo reference and Photoshop techniques. There is no actual drawing involved, but this style works if you are looking to create something hand drawn and are wondering about the effects of light and shadows.

This quick tutorial by master illustrator Jay French shows you how to plan out a panel layout and sketch simple blocked in characters prior to creating a full blown comic.

The tutorial by Xia Taptara of idrawgirls is an advanced tutorial which requires a bit of drawing skill. This is more of a commentary while drawing rather than a step-by-step tutorial. Xia shows you some techniques using construction lines and poses.

From the DVD based on the best selling book “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way” Stan Lee and artist Jim Lee explain how to draw individual parts for characters in comics – foreshortening, perspective, musculature and process are all explained.

I hope you learn something new from this series of videos. I’ll be back with some written tutorials later on in the week to add to your knowledge base. Until then, check out some of these other tutorials from the archive.

It’s great to see the results of hours worth of painting/drawing work – the final rendered piece often draws a lot of praise and in a lot of cases, serves as inspiration for other artists to go off and do something similar. But what is equally as interesting as the finished piece is the method and workflow artists use to achieve these results.

I know we all don’t have the luxury of sitting for hours at a time while the artists makes their forms come to life – but with the help of time-lapse video, you can get the feeling of the artists method in a shorter period of time. With these video clips, you can see a blank canvas appear magically when these time-lapsed hours turn into minutes.

Absolutely incredible work – I hope some of these inspired you. I know I’m tempted to try some of this myself – I’ve always thought about it, but after seeing all this great work, I know I should do a few of these while I work on my comic book!