How To Draw Comic Strips

I'm Mik, Mik Brown from miko-illustration .com and Miko-Cartoon.com.

And now, I'm going to show you how to draw comic strips. The comic strips are basically, we do one drawing of a particular scene. It's rather like several scenes of a film or of a TV play.

It's the same story broken up into different scenes. So we'll be drawing squares. The important thing is continuity of character.

If you're having the one character is a hero that is appearing in each scene, you're going to be able to draw that character from several different angles. So as an example, let's draw a simple dog. That's a dog, funny little dog.

Let's do the eyes like that, the eyes are up here and it's quite chunky this dog. Right, very simple. It sits like that.

So that's scene number one. Well, we normally have the title. What should we call him? A written book about a dog called Whizzy.

Doesn't look like Whizzy, but let's call him Whizzy anyway, Whizzy, the Dog. So I'm going to draw him even more lovely, you know. Because I will sketch chart very roughly the drawings that I'm going to put in the cartoon strip.

Just to give me an idea, just the same as all films have a story board. And there was a knock at the door, shall we say, and Whizzy the Dog is always interested in whose knocking at the door. So he starts barking.

Bark, bark, bark, bark. He's behind it. Again this is very rough but Whizzy barks at the door and we put the sound of him barking.

Bark, bark, and the door opens and it's Steve the cameraman. He, with all his gear. Again, it's pretty rough.

He's carrying this, he's carrying that, he's carrying a tripod and he's in here, sees the dog and he jumps up. Again it's very quick but just a rough, just to indicate what we'll do. At this time, Whizzy recognizes Steve and jumps up and rushes.

Steve falls over with all his equipment around him and Whizzy the dog on top of, to see him. The end. So it's very, very simple.

Always start off with rough drawings like that, create your character. Be able to draw him from different positions. Let's draw him from a back view.

See his nose, his eyes like that, his ears, front foot, back foot, his little toe here. I would need a bit more practicing to be able to do different angles but you get the idea. That's important.

So then with these instead of draw it now, I would draw them up properly, now I've got the idea of the storyline. But for the moment, it's how to draw cartoon comic strips. .