Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics

Learn to develop your ideas in a sketchbook by creating a series of sequential drawings with pencil and ink that tell a story without words

• Introduction
• Visual Storytelling, Panel Design, and Composition
• Working on the Page: Thumbnails, Breakdowns, and Finished Pencils
• The Inking Process
• How to Get Your Comics Out There
• Final project

“Stories help us to interpret reality and by framing our interests into comic vignettes, we can create compelling and revealing tales.”

Charles Glaubitz is a renowned storyteller and illustrator, whose work has been featured in publications like has been featured in Juxtapoz and Print Magazine. In 2012, his comic work was recognized by American Best Comics.

In this online course, Charles explains in detail the dynamics of storytelling, comics, binding visuals, and publishing. Learn how to bring all your ideas together to create your own universe, a story that could become gold.

• About Me
• Influences
• The Visual Journey of Ideas
• Choosing the Moment
• Page Layout, Elements of a Page, and Shapes of a Panel
• Compositional Tools to Make Dynamic Panels
• Ways of Creating Depth
• Thumbnails
• Page Layout
• Composition Design
• Breakdowns
• Finished Pencils
• Starting to Ink
• Middle Inks
• Finishing Inks
• Making More Comics and Printing Them
• Self-Publishing and Sharing Your Work
• Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics