Drawing Words & Writing Pictures
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is a textbook containing a systematic course that teaches the alchemical art of combining words and pictures to make comics. In it, authors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden have laid out a complete, structured syllabus that guides students from creating narrative in a single drawing to orchestrating all the skills involved in creating a multi-page, complex story.
- learn to exploit word-image juxtaposition
- explore panel transitions
- overcome penciling obstacles
- master the fundamentals of story structure
- lay out comics pages clearly and quickly
- apply principles of composition to your work
- letter dialogue and narration and design titles
- create compelling characters
- learn to ink with a brush and a nib pen
- develop convincing visual environments
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is out of print, but easily findable as a used book, for example at Abe Books or Thrift books.