You’ve drawn your reduced size layout, now it’s time to transfer it to a full size page and start penciling.

In this lesson, we’ll continue rendering our comic page by lighting our refined rough in.

In this lesson, I take my thumbnail sketches and refine them with proper perspective and work out some of the details.

In this critique, I take a deep dive into comic layouts, emphasizing storytelling, composition, and visual clarity in dynamic scenes.

It’s time for your assignment! Your first step to making your own comic page is to piece together your layout with thumbnails.

In this lesson, we’ll start working on the rough in for our final page.

Let’s move on to panels 3-6, focusing on line weight, shadows, and backgrounds.

It can be easy for line weight, shadows, and texture to become visually overpowering. I'll show you how to work through this process without it detracting from other elements as I work on the second panel.

Let's dive into the details of our first panel by adding line weight and shadows. We'll also discuss the important things to keep in mind while working on backgrounds.

As I finish the rough ins of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th panels, I'll share tips relating to storytelling elements, working with writers, and the challenges that come with drawing at a smaller scale.