Courses
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Introduction to Comic Book Lettering
Add to cartA clean, effective, and powerful-looking comic with professional lettering and production work is just around the corner!
Join pro Sean Rinehart for a course on lettering and production work. There’s a lot more to lettering than digitally pasting words onto the page. Avoid the pitfalls of unprofessional lettering by training with Sean!
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Professional Best Practices: The Art of Being a Working Comic Creator
Add to cartBreaking into comics is one thing–actually creating a career in comics where publishers, collaborators, and editors want to work with you again and again is something else entirely. Instructor Andy Schmidt is a comics writer, editor and publisher. In all those roles, he’s found common traits that every creator with a career has in spades. This course shines a light on “the Intangibles” of being a working professional and gives you a head start on building a long and successful career.
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Comics Writing: Story Foundations & Development
Add to cartYour story starts here! Learn how to methodically build a story from the ground up, narrative structure, character building, and much more.
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Comics Writing: Writing for a Visual Medium
Add to cartIn the Foundations course, you learned how to build a story. In this course, you’ll learn how to develop any story for a visual medium. What is it about comics specifically, that’s going to effect how you tell your story? How do you script so that your artist will get the most out of your script–or just as importantly, that you don’t tie one of your artist’s drawing hands behind their back.
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Comics Writing: Finishing a Script and Next Steps
Add to cartThe most overlooked part of creative writing education is rewriting and what to do after your finished! Here, we’ve dedicated a course to reviewing your work, how to attack a rewrite to make sure that your work improves. Doing so without destroying the good work you’ve already done, and using a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.
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Express Course Bundle: Business of Comics Fundamentals
Add to cartYou want to start your comics business or self-publish your comic, but you don’t have an MBA! Not to worry, we’ve got you. In this Express course bundle, we cover the basic fundamentals of running a comics business.
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Express Course Bundle: Comic Book Contracts Pack
Add to cartThe concepts of intellectual property generate billions of dollars for companies like DC, Marvel, and Viz. If you want to benefit from the business and legal power of your comics, you need to understand what the publishers do. This bundle pack of our Community Pro Lessons will get you started by highlighting the basics of copyrights, trademarks, and the contracts that define them.
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Introduction to Comic Book Writing Bundle
Add to cartIf you’ve ever dreamt of writing your own comic or wanted to improve your existing skills – this class bundle is for you. Learn from renowned comics writers Andy Schmidt and Paul Allor, who have worked for Marvel, IDW and BOOM!, Aftershock and Vault Comics, on both licensed and creator-owned work!
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Coloring: Tools, Art Preparation and Flatting
Add to cartIn our earliest coloring course, you’ll learn what tools are needed to color comics, how to use them for that purpose, what your art should look like and how to prep it for coloring.
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Coloring: Color Theory and Application to Comics
Add to cartIn this course, you’ll learn not just what color theory is, but how it applies to comics specifically. Comics are rarely just one illustration or image, they are comprised of multiple images on a page, that all have to have balance within themselves and with all the other images.
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Coloring: Lighting & Rendering
Add to cartOne of the most important aspects of comics coloring today is paying attention to and establishing light sources. That also means understanding how they affect the true color of objects and figures. Master color artist Chris Sotomayor has been rendering comics since the 1990s and was one of the pioneers in digital coloring. Now he’s going to teach you the best techniques in the book–a book that he wrote, by the way.
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Coloring: Special Effects
Add to cartIn this special micro-course, Chris Sotomayor teaches how to add on special effects to your colored pages. Special effects aren’t always necessary, but when you need one, or have the right place for one, they can really help a piece pop and sell the the page.