Comic books and graphic novels combine two things every designer aspires to meld: real meaning and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Here we introduce 30 of the...

Learn how to turn a traditionally inked comic page into a warmly lit night scene in vector. With live paint, global process colors, gradients and different...

How come when other people draw unrealistic things it's called "style", but when you do the same it's called wrong? Are there any rules you can use to make...

Add the look of comics and learn how you can make a gray illustration pop by converting it into halftones. We will look at different ways to create this...

Whether it's a web comic, comic book, or graphic novel, the artists of the comic world have a variety of roles within a comic's creation, and all of them are...

Learn how to create custom brushes for digital inking and what methods to use for a quick and smooth workflow.

How to create a setting in a comic by starting off with an establishing shot. After learning the basics of perspective drawing, we draw our own cityscape,...

Learn how to storyboard a comic and what kinds of panel types can be used to different effect. Using clipping masks we can quickly make a comic page that is...

Learn what goes into making an appealing design for your comic character, and how making a character sheet can help your comic process later on.

As part of our series on drawing human anatomy, here are some final notes so that you can not only design and draw a character fully, but draw this same...

A detailed lesson for accurately portraying and drawing people of all ages, touching on the progression that happens over time.

The difference between the drawing of an adult and a drawing of a baby, a child or a teenager is directly related to their anatomical proportions. But in...