How to Draw Comic Books

How to Draw Comic Books How to Draw Comic Books Cartoons and comic books are a part of our life. Reading a fun filled comic book eases our tensions and makes us laugh. One of the best companions and all time favourite for kids are the comic books. If you are imaginative and have a flair for drawing you can make a comic book for your kids at home.

There are various ways to draw comic books. You can take help of the software Comic Book Draw if you are familiar with computers, or the other option would be to draw in hands.

The comic book software comprises of an array of clip arts, drawing program and type faces. You can use the drawing tools to create your own comic character. The online user guide and help facility will help you to enhance your drawing by adding extra effects.

Here are the few basic ways on how to draw comic characters. All you need is a drawing book, pencils, a set of colour pencils, a tracing paper and an eraser.

You first need to chalk out the story board and the characters in them.
The characters should be attached to the story and lively.
Simplicity makes a comic book much more interesting. So use simple languages.

Once you are done with the story board you can start drawing the comic book characters.

Select a character that suits your story and which is easy to draw.
Get hold of a tracing paper and trace out the comic character. This is one of the best ways to start. Continuous practise will help you draw the characters without tracing them.
There are lot of ‘How to’ books available in the market. You can purchase one of them and start practising with it.
A drawing class will be of good help if you do not know how to draw.
It is advisable to draw along with your friend as he or she might have a better idea about enhancing the characters and the story.

These are the basic steps to draw comic books. These books mainly contain pictures and less of writing. So it is very important to make your characters very lively so that it can interact with the reader and also are able to portray the entire story with minimal reading. If you are familiar with computers the easiest way to accomplish this task is to use the software.

Here’s what you need to do. The online user guide of 80 pages will give you a detailed instruction on how to draw a comic character.

Select a Comic Book clipart and Drag and Drop the image of your choice to the screen. You will get the clip arts from the Draw menu.
You can make use of Flex Art too. You can select each and every body part with your mouse to edit the image according to your wish by selecting the function like move head, rotate object etc.

Though the software is pretty easy to use but hand work is always given the preference.