Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective

Develop meaningful characters and discover how perspective can help drive the narrative for compelling comic book sequences

• Introduction
• The Basics of Comics
• From the Script to the Finished Page
• How to Find a Job in Comics
• Final project

Creating comics offers lot of freedom: it’s an art form you can practice alone, with complete control over the final product. Comic book creator André Lima Araújo specializes in scriptwriting, designing characters, developing layouts, and more for companies like DC Comics and Marvel. He has worked on titles including Fantastic Four, Avengers AI, and Spider-Verse.

In this course, he teaches you how to create compelling comic book sequences using action and perspective. Explore storytelling techniques to bring meaningful characters to life and convey a sense of movement on the page. Are you ready to turn your ideas into action?

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials
• Tools for Comic Storytelling
• Perspective as a Tool
• Anatomy in Perspective for Characters
• Planning and Writing Stage: The Power of a Blank Page
• Layouts 1
• Layouts 2
• Pencil Stage 1
• Pencil Stage 2
• Inking Stage 1
• Inking Stage 2
• Inking Stage 3
• Grey Tones Stage 1
• Grey Tones Stage 2
• Making a Portfolio and the Importance of Original Creations
• How to Break into Comics
• Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective