If you want to make a comic, you need to think of a concept. You can’t just draw a comic without thinking about it. There are 2 ways to get your concept, you can either just wing it and draw anything that comes to mind, or you can look for inspiration. For inspiration you can look outside, look at images, or look at other comics, (But don’t copy them!)

Making A layout

For the next part, you’re going to want to make a layout. A layout is basically a set of lines to separate your panels. There are a variety of choices when making your layout. The way we like to do it is make a cross in the middle of the paper, forming 4 panels. Another way is making a 2 panel layout. A 2 panel layout consists of either a line going down the paper vertically or horizontally.

Sketching

Now, you may realize that your comic is missing something. That’s right, it’s missing characters. Now, making characters isn’t easy, I think comics have 2 types of characters.

Fleshed Out Characters, and Props. Fleshed Out Characters have distinct personalities, characteristics, and traits. On the other hand, Props are characters who can change from comic to comic. For example, in one comic, they love dogs, but in another they hate dogs.

Making Characters Talk/Dialogue

For the fourth step you need your characters to talk. This is called dialogue. Even though some comics don’t include dialogue, dialogue can improve the comic. Dialogue is a way of efficiently making your characters talk to each other. Dialogue can consist of anything. It can be arguing, or two characters getting along.

For the final step, you should write a signature for your comic. (Note: This step is optional.)

Writing signatures helps you show people that you wrote this comic. It’s helpful when somebody tries to steal your comic. With the signature its easier to claim the comic for yourself.

To conclude the article, we encourage you to draw comics. It’s very fun and it’s definitely worth a try. If you don’t like it then that’s alright, it’s just worth a try. They are also very easy to make and they are fun to make.