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Tips for Illustrating and Comics 7 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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In this thread are the compiled tips and resources posted by board members and A.N.A. Comics. Hopefully you will find them as benificial as we have:
Freddy wrote:
Whipped this up during lunch as a reference on how to draw faces. Well, more like how to break them up so you can draw them.
It's made from a few rules that I've picked up here and there. This is generally how I compose a face but with all art, you can adjust it to build your character. Move the eyebrows around, make the nose bigger, jaw smaller, ears bigger, move the mouth up or down, etc... This is how you make things unique and give your character, well, some character 
Anywho, thought I'd post it here in case anyone has a use for it.
Anthony wrote:
The following Four tips are taking from C.B.Cebulski's blog. Click here to visit his blog directly.
1. When doing layouts, stick to the grid. Boring, I know, but learn and use the basics when it comes to storytelling. You need to walk before you run.
2. Don’t break panel borders. This is a more advanced penciling technique that is usually mis-used and abused far too often, causing the reader's eye to go to the wrong panel and only serves to confuse your storytelling.
3. Pull your camera out. You are going in too tightly and cropping out too much of the figures/body parts/action. Don't be lazy. Start by learning to draw everything asked for in the script inside your panel walls effectively first.
4. Include more backgrounds to give us a better sense of place. Think of your background as another character in the story and use it to help enhance the storytelling and the world your characters are inhabiting.
Freddy wrote:
Didn't wanna hijack the CB thread so I thought I'd post it separately...
Wally Wood's 22 Panels that always work.. .Read it, Learn it, print it out and stick it on your wall. One of the most legendary names in comics boils down the art to 22 panels. If you have any desire to be a comic artist you're gonna need these great tips.
Ask any working comic book artist who has been in the business for more than ten years about "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work", and they know of it like it was the bible. Google "Wally Wood" and "22 panels", and you get over 150 hits. It is with great pleasure that GothamCityArt.com brings this historic piece to market. Once shrouded in secrecy, Wally Wood would selectively give assistants and those close to him three 8x10 photocopies of comic panels that bore the absolute essence of drawing comic book panels. 22 images in total, they held the secret to a comic book illustrator's success, and those who learned from them benefited from the master's wisdom. The panels were gold, but were not packaged in such a way that was easily disseminated.
Years later as an Editor at Marvel, Wood's former assistant, Larry Hama, needed a tool to give direction to his would-be artists. He had two copies of the three sheets. With the help of another ex-assistant of Wally Wood's (whom he recalls may have been Paul Kirchner), Hama reassembled the "Tri-Force" of Wally Wood sheets. On the back of a Marvel art Bristol board, Hama wrote the now-famous caption "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work", and had Robbie Carosella and Elliot Brown stat down the sheets. He ran off 50 copies from the board, and handed them out to potential pencilers. Pretty soon, other editors were sending pencilers and even some old pros down the hall to get copies from him. Eventually, he had more master copies statted and gave them to other editors so they could make their own copies to pass out. The original paste-up, with Hama's original hand-lettering, was eventually tucked into an envelope and put in the back of a flatfile, where it stayed for more than a decade. Second, third, fourth, tenth and twentieth generation copies continue to be made and handed down. The artwork pictured here is the original pasteup, as well as the three 8x10 copies that were statted down to make the board. Some of the panels, which were lost through use, were restated to the original board over the years.
Head on over to Joel Johnson's blog to get higher versions and see the full story on this great artist's tool 
joeljohnson.com/archives/2006/08/wally_woods_22.html
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