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Introduction to Comic Book Coloring

$595.00

In this six-week course, pro colorist Chris Sotomayor teaches you all the necessary tools for coloring and using color as a storytelling device.

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Introduction to Writing Comics

$595.00

Learn how to craft a comic book story, create great characters, the ins and outs of the industry and tips for breaking in—from professional writer and editor Paul Allor.

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Portfolio Review: Colors

Portfolio Review: Color Art

$49.99 – $99.99

Coloring has become such a major part of the art of comics, that its importance truly can't be overstated. To have your color art reviewed, you may submit up to five pages of sequential art, colored by you. We will also need a copy of the line art (before you colored it) so that we can look at how you approached each page.

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Portfolio Review: Cover Art

Portfolio Review: Cover Art

$49.99 – $99.99

Every comic needs a cover (often more than one)! If you're interested in having your cover art reviewed, we're happy to do that, too!

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Portfolio Review: Inking

Portfolio Review: Inking

$49.99 – $99.99

If you want a review to evaluate how well you ink over someone else's pencil work, you may submit up to five pages of sequential art inked. In order to properly evaluate your inking, we would also like you to submit those same pages in their penciled version as we need to compare a before and after in order to properly evaluate your inking techniques.

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Portfolio Review: Sequential Art

$49.99 – $99.99

Our most common portfolio review is for artists who want to illustrate comic book stories. In order to do that, you've got to have great storytelling in addition to great draftsmanship.

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Professional Best Practices: The Art of Being a Working Comic Creator

$99.99

Breaking 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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Writing: Story Foundations

Comics Writing: Story Foundations & Development

$149.00

Your 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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Writing for a Visual Medium

Comics Writing: Writing for a Visual Medium

$149.00

In 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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Finishing Your Script and Next Steps

Comics Writing: Finishing a Script and Next Steps

$149.00

The 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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Introduction to Comic Book Writing and Editing Bundle

$595.00

This bundle contains both the LIVE Introduction to Writing Comics course where you’ll meet with your instructor (Paul Allor) weekly, get your homework reviewed each week and get to ask questions all along the way AND the Editing and Project Management course. Find collaborators, manage budgets, timetables, bring the best out of your writers and artists, problem solve, and make a professional-level project!

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Introduction to Comic Book Writing Bundle

$399.00

If you’ve ever dreamt of writing your own comic or wanted to improve your existing skills – this class bundle is for you.

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Coloring: Tools, Art Preparation and Flatting

$149.00

In 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

$149.00

In 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

$149.00

One 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

$99.00

In 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.

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