How To Draw Your Own Graphic Novel

Readers who love to get sucked into the fantastic world of a really good graphic novel will be thrilled to learn they can actually create their very own. The many steps in creating a vibrant graphic novel are thoroughly explained in this wonderful series. Readers are introduced to the basics of graphic novels and the elements that go into making a great one from characters to plot to designing the perfect, eye-catching cover. Step-by-step instructions explain how to draw the most amazing hero and most evil villain. Wonderful explanatory illustrations accompany the text.

Create a real comic with an illustrated guide and fill-in pages for kids ages 8 to 12 Swashbuckling adventure, mystery, fantasy, autobiography—if a child can dream of a story, they can tell it as a comic book. With this write your own book for kids, they will unlock their powers of verbal and visual storytelling to make their own graphic novel. Along with a guide to writing and drawing a story from start to finish, kids will find more than 50 pre-paneled layout pages to fill using their imagination. Fun exercises make it easy to understand real professional techniques for writing an outline, evoking movement using action lines, planning transitions between panels, and more. Then, young writers and artists can bring their own comics to life on the blank pages right away with speech bubbles, sound effects, inking, and coloring. Whether they want to birth a new superhero, make a world of talking animals, or share their own school stories, they’ll just need to bring a pencil and their creativity! Learn how fun it can be to create graphic novels with this write your own book for kids!

"Let your comic adventures unfold in words and images with this blank draw-your-own-comic-book! Inside, you'll find six sections with separate comic-book cover templates, allowing you to create a complete comic book series or several original works"--Cover page

Quiet, sensitive Faith starts middle school already worrying about how she will fit in. To her surprise, Amanda, a popular eighth grader, convinces her to join the school soccer team, the Bloodhounds. Having never played soccer in her life, Faith ends up on the C team, a ragtag group that’s way better at drama than at teamwork. Although they are awful at soccer, Faith and her teammates soon form a bond both on and off the soccer field that challenges their notions of loyalty, identity, friendship, and unity. The Breakaways from Cathy G. Johnson is a raw, and beautifully honest graphic novel that looks into the lives of a diverse and defiantly independent group of kids learning to make room for themselves in the world.

Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.

Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.

The activity book Draw Your Own Comic Book! is full of blank squares and speech bubbles of different sizes, waiting for you to release your imagination and create your own fun and exciting stories. Draw and color your squares to give your stories life. You can fill the hundred pages with one long, continuous series or many short action-packed strips. This is the perfect source of inspiration for creative children and young people with their heads full of ideas. What are you waiting for? Get your markers and create your own cartoon!

Offers advice for effective storytelling in comic book format, covering such topics as color, placement, pacing, visually representing ideas, and other techniques for short gag strips as well as graphic novels and other more involved storylines.