Tuesday, December 13, 2011

New Assignment: Create A Comic Book Page From Photographs

Hello Students,
Your new assignment is to create a 2 comic book style pages and a cover from photographs. Check out the guidelines and follow the filter process to create  cool comic book styled art from photographs.


Comic Book Assignment:

  • Brainstorm a short comic book story that will fit into 6 panels
  • Sketch or storyboard your scenes on paper, create 1 full page cover image and 2 comic pages with 3 images per page
  • Your comic book story could be an action scene, a dramatic scene, a scary story, a dream sequence, a slice of life or a funny story with a punchline... use your imagination
  • Check out the comic book panel layouts below for different page design ideas
  • Research comic books, look at how the people are posed, color usage, angles, and try to capture that style in your images
  • Get your models together, pose and arrange them and shoot your scenes
  • Lay your photos out and crop/resize to create your comic book panels and cover
Comic book pages can have lots of different panel layouts, here are 8 different page layouts

How To Style Your Photo Into Comic Book Art:


  • Open photo in Photoshop
  • Go to Filer > Artistic > Poster Edges
  • Adjust sliders for desired effect

Have fun!
- Mr.W

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