Comic+Strip

Comics are the continuation of a tradition that extends to back to ancient Egypt: Combining pictures and narrative. Your assignment will be to create a comic strip. Before you can begin drawing, you need to have a story in mind. Please make this story about everyday occurrences or using everyday objects (excluding cell phones and ipods.) Please keep it school appropriate. Your story does not have to be funny. It can be charming, clever, witty, ironic or sad. You should have four to six panels. This is your rough draft round. First sketch out your ideas. These sketches can be really basic, and in fact should be. You can do the details later. After the rough draft, grab a new sheet of paper- It should be 11”x17”. Shade the picture using controlled line- no smudging. You should work very lightly! When it is finished, trace it onto the Bristol board provided. Now draw in your word balloons along with your words. Do it in pencil first so you know your words will fit! Everything should now get inked. Outline everything. Use your pen to shade using crosshatching. Use a paint brush to fill in all of the black areas. Erase all of your pencil after the ink has dried. Color in with Prismacolors everything that is not black. Do all of you shading, blending, etc., now. If you need to go back over your black with more ink, do it!
 * Comics **
 * Step 1: Story **
 * Step 2: Sketches **
 * Step 3: Pencils **
 * Step 4: Lettering **
 * Step 5: Inking **
 * Step 6: Coloring **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 1. **Panel/Frame**- box that contains a scene or moment of the story telling. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 2. **Bleed**- an image that runs off the page. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 3. **Splash**- a panel that takes a full page. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 4. **Gutter**- Space between panels. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 5. **Spread**- two pages facing each other in a printed book. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 6. **Recto/verso**- technical terms for the pages in a spread: recto=right page, verso= left page. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 7. **Emanata**- the visual external emotive qualities of a character. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 8. **Sound FX**- words drawn to detail a particular sound in the narrative. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 9. ** Narrative/ Voice over  ** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 10. ** Word balloons  ** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msolist: Ignore;"> 11. ** Camera angles  **
 * Comics terminology **