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COMICS

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MANGA ( Japanese Comics)

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Comics are a visual medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or

visual information.

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The language of comics

• Panels are individual images containing a segment of action, often surrounded by a border.

• Speech balloons (also speech bubbles or dialogue balloons) are a graphic convention used to allow words to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of the characters in the comic.

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One character talking Several characters speak Thought bubble

The narrator writesSomeone shouting Someone muttering

Examples of speech balloons or bubbles

Common forms of comicsComic strips

Cartoons

• Comic books

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Fumetti or Photonovels

Storyboards (pre-visualizing a motion picture)

Online Web Comics

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Types of Formats (Grammar of Films and TV)

XLS- Extra Long Shot MCU-Medium Close-UpLS- Long Shot CU- Close-UpMLS- Medium Long Shot BCU-Big Close-UpMS- Medium Shot XCU- Extra Close-Up

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There are also artistic resources like gesture lines to capture the movement of

an object or character

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Examples of gesture lines

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ACTIVITY nº 1

Observe the following Corkscrew, can you think of a comic

character?

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Design a character based on the corkscrew. Personificate the object (give it human characteristics). It is important to work on previous sketches. Create a short six-frame comic strip based on this character

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 ACTIVITY nº 2

Design using simple shapes a cartoon character. This character can be a person or an animal. Remember to use exaggeration, as in a caricature. Describe his/her clothes and complements and draw a few positions and expressions.

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ACTIVITY Nº 3Draw a short six-frame comic strip.

Frame 1- Design using simple shapes a cartoon character, face, neck and shoulders only, with ears. This character can be a person or an animal. Remember to use exaggeration, as in a caricature.

Frame 2- A repeat of the first box, with the addition of an insect, who has flown into the box. Use lines to show the motion of the flying.

Frame 3- Repeat the image, only here the insect flies into the character’s ear, and the expression on the face of the character changes appropiately.

Frame 4- The character’s face should get more upset with lines and symbols showing the upset around his/her face.

Frame 5- The insect exits the other ear, and the facial expression of the character should change again.

Frame 6- Shows the insect gone and the character feeling… relief, joy, whatever you want, with a dialogue balloon overhead to write and appropiate “whew!!!” or other suitable words.

Finally go over the pencil lines with a fine black marker, and add color with colored pencils.

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