Create Your Own Graphic Novel Using Digital Techniques - Softcover

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The graphic novel is a rapidly evolving art form that’s gaining more and more respect. In recent years, its dynamic, full-color illustrations and complex, action-packed story lines have grabbed the attention of movie moguls and mainstream publishers—and inspired hordes of budding artists and writers.

It’s now easier than ever to create your own graphic novel—as this book shows. Time-saving home-computer technology has superseded traditional pen-and-ink techniques, while the Web offers an invaluable source of ideas and advice—and an easy way to present your work to a wider audience.

Create Your Own Graphic Novel teaches you how to translate your writing and drawing talents into digitally realized artwork in easy-to-follow steps. Better still, every page is presented in graphic novel format—so you’ll have fun while you learn.

Includes invaluable guidance and professional tips on:

Finding inspiration

Writing scripts

Sharing ideas

Sketching characters

Arranging panels

Coloring artwork

Lettering speech balloons

Getting your work published

Mike Chinn has written numerous comic books in a range of styles—from fantasy through horror, to science fiction and superhero. He is the author of Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel, also published in North America by Barron’s.

Chris McLoughlin is a comics industry veteran. His credits include Green Lantern for DC comics, Hunter: The Age of Magic for Vertigo, and Holmes: The Detective Monkey for ‰ditions Carabas.

Mike Chinn has written many comic books in a wide variety of styles, and is a contributing editor to the British Fantasy Society magazine, Dark Horizons.

Chris McLoughlin has illustrated comic books for more than a decade, completing major assignments of publishers including DC Comics and for Carabus in France.