Visual Arts & Making
Making Comics
The hard part is not drawing well but deciding how many panels this page gets
The pens and paper carry over from sketching, but the craft does not: how many panels a page holds, how the eye travels across it, which frame gets the space, where a speech balloon sits without covering a face. Comic board, screentone and comic nibs are their own aisle of the stationery shop, and a tablet does not remove those decisions. The usual wall is finishing one complete short story.
First stepDraw a four-panel strip on one sheet: setup, turn, reaction, payoff, with speech balloons that don't cover any faces.
Barriers
Cost to start
Under $50
Going deep → $300–2k
Alone or with people
On your own
Effort
Sitting
Without a teacher?
Self-taught
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
At home
Why people take it up