I am sure you had a wonderful experience creating your own characters. Keep a collection of the characters you created and you can always add more to your collection. This is a nice way of bring life to your environment.
Remember, a comic character can be created from anything- a shoe, tin, pencil, eraser, lunch bag, spoon......... Even a shape can come to life by simply adding eyes, nose, a mouth, even arms and legs.
Pencils coming to life by adding facial features.
One of the most important aspects in drawing comic characters besides the facial and body features would be Expression of feelings and mood of the character. These would include happiness, sadness, showing agitation, hostility, envy, hate, anger and so on.
Below is a Chart that can help you better create emotions in your characters. You can also click on the link to get a larger view of the Facial Expression Chart .
Facial Expression Chart
In the next link you will see many other characters. It is a page that focuses and provides information on Character Design . This link will show you step by step guidelines to help you better design your characters for your Comic Page. Please read it through thoroughly and ensure that you make use of the information learnt.
Remember to write your thoughts on the information provided to you.
Here are a few guided questions to help you:
I think that this information is very helpful because this information helps with facial and emotional characters. This information benefited me because when I have to do another comic I can now have a better understanding of the expressions of my characters. I am feeling more confident about my development as a Comic Artist because I can do a comic, Ican draw better and also send out a message for the reader of my comic.
ReplyDeleteThe information in this blog is helpful to young artist who would like to explore the other functions of drawings. The information in the blog has benefited me because there many thing that I never knew and I learned the new ways to draw and I always draw the human form but we learned that we can draw with shapes and fruits. I feel more confident because I learned to draw with objects other that the human form. So it can be easier to draw in art.
ReplyDeleteThis information on this blog is useful because sir provided us with links to help make our comics better. It is also a faster way to save time because you would have had to go through textbooks for information but by a blog you gets the information faster and it saves time.
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ReplyDeleteI think that this information is very use full in a comics ,Yes this information is beneficial it helps me to improve my characters ,Yes I feel more confident because I can develop my character better .
ReplyDeleteYes Triston i agree with you but you didn't say why this information is very useful in comics.
DeleteThis blog provided me with the information of creating comics and drawing characters in
ReplyDeletehuman form such as proportion (arms,legs and head ) and the facial features of a character.
The learning outcomes of this lesson which I have learn is the development of characters and
how to develop a comic . In closing I would like to thank my art teacher Mr. Dillip Maharaj
for his great effort behind us .
The information provided in this blog as well as in class has indeed been beneficial to me because I have never been fully exposed in the creation of my own comic strip. So all of these bits of information on facial expression, body language and creativity has helped me to understand and appreciate comics a lot more and now I am more confident in creating my own.
ReplyDeleteI think information provided in this blog is really how create a character in a comic for example you can give a colour pencil human features.
ReplyDeleteThis blog benefitted me so I can giving an object human features.
This blog provided me with the information of developing characters in a human form such
ReplyDeleteas proportion (arms, legs and head ) and the facial features of them.
This makes me feel creative, can you image everything you see is with faces and eyes . I like this type of method, it is a powerful skill . By Brandon Rampersad .
ReplyDeleteThe information on this blog is very interesting, creative and inspiring. This information has benefited me in a way that inspired me to do some facial expressions and draw some characters. I fell more confident of my development in comics because I felt like I can do comic with nice characters.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that that what was said in the second paragraph is true because sometimes the emotions of the writer can be expressed through the comic is being drawn or written :from travis
ReplyDeleteI learned that through the facial expression on your character's face could also describe your personal emotion from travis
ReplyDeleteI found that this information was very useful on this blog site because it had benefited me because it show me how to bring objects to life by simply just adding a facial expression. Yes i do feel more confident because now that I have gather great information I can put it to use.
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ReplyDeleteThe information provided on this blog to me is informative. Yes, because I learnt of all the hard work behind comics and it gives me a sense of appreciation to it. I am feeling more confident because when I finished my comic I didn't realise i was capable of doing a comic script until I completed mines.
It is beneficial and inspirational to others.Yes,it inspired me to learn more about comics. Yes this showed me how to make my comic characters
ReplyDeleteI think this information provided on this blog is a very helpful because its emotional and facial characters. I learn that if i got to continue and do another comic my knowledge will be refined. Simply displayed beneficial and inspirational to others.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever thought of the fact that you are bringing to life your comic characters by giving them expressions and emotions? What are your views on this?
DeleteThis information will help my develop my characters and I would like to create my own great comics because they are very entertaining
ReplyDeleteYes ! The information that was provided on this blog has enhanced the way in which I create my characters because it shows me that it does not matter what character I choose or how perfectly I draw it no! This blog has thaught me that an artist focuses/ contemplate on the facial expressions presented by the character drawn.
ReplyDeleteI think the information was beneficial. Yes it did to learn about comics and it made me like it more.I feel more confident about drawing characters because of the great teachings of Mr.Dillip.
ReplyDeleteI think the information provided in this blog is very helpful and it can assist us in our life and school work.Yes the information has benefited me because when I go to school I will know what I am doing. Yes I am also feeling more confident in my self because when I am doing my art I will know what i am doing.
ReplyDeleteI looked at my classmates comics and there were some mistakes in the comic. I was able to identify most of the mistakes in the comic. I felt a little weird to critique my friends comics because I felt that I would hurt there feeling’s. In the end I realized that I was not hurting their feelings but I was inspiring them to do their best in whatever they do in art.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful observation Ryan. It is also a lesson we can use in life. As much as we may sometimes think it may be rude to tell someone something that would help them we must also remember that they may very well appreciate what we have to tell them and they see our perspective. They would thank you and remember you for what you did in helping them realise where they went wrong. - Sir Dilip
DeleteI was very good critiqueing someones work and it helps me to develop skills in making comics and publishing it for everyone to see.
ReplyDeleteThe information provided was very useful and creative.Yes it inspired me because it shows how to learn more how to make your facial expressions.I'm more confident about my development on being a comic artist because I learnt many expressions that I can use for comics and the characters in the comic brings out the comic and if we use these expressions given our comics would come out even more.
ReplyDeleteSome of it was indeed creative, i think the facial expressions were humorous and quite useful to someone who's interest lies in comic sketches. A comic artist can develop confidence by doing several things such as observation which is practiced in everyday life. I do feel more confident and positive about being a comic artist since my passion has been and always will be art and all that art entails....
ReplyDeleteYes Joey, I also found the facial expressions humorous and quite useful to someone who's interest lies in comics and I think that your interest lies in comic sketches and art,
DeleteThis blog provided me with the information of creating comics and drawing characters in
ReplyDeletehuman form such as proportion (arms,legs and head ) and the facial features of a character. The information was very helpful to me because in many ways it help me to create many wonderful pictures in my comics and help develop my background in my comics a little better. It also helps me feel more confident and positive about being a comic artist.
This information on this blog is useful because it providd us with hints to help make our comics better. This information has benefitted me because this would help me progress more as an artist and I am feeling more confident about my comics and I can now publish them for the world to see without having any problems.
ReplyDeleteUsing any object as a character helps me alot now because when I use to be shy to develop a character. Now that I was thaught this lesson, I am now more confident in myself.
ReplyDeleteThe information is useful because it shows us ways facial expressions looks like and yes it is used in comics to show the feelings of characters. I enjoy this topic because it give me a better idea of how to draw facial expressions and when drawing comics I would know the feelings of the characters.
ReplyDeleteI learn that a comic can be any thing around us if we put eye nose or mouth on an item and to save all the characters. The information made me learn how to change a face to show different emotions. I am feeling more confident because I am able to make my own person and make there character.
ReplyDeleteThis information on this blog is useful because it provide us with hints and clues of us making a better comic. This information has benefited me cause when I did my comic I made a few mistakes and corrected it when I read the blog I realized that I shouldn't make your comic with too little or too much fonts.
ReplyDeleteThe information in the blog was very useful to me because it has helped me in improving my comics because I was not good at it. I have also never like doing comics beacuse I was not good at drawing but it takes a little bit of tries to get good at it.
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