Introduction to Digital Comic

You will meet Albert Monteys, who will review you for his career since he published himself comic books until he passed through El Jueves (comic book magazine) and how he ventured into the digital comic. Also, it will show you the main authors and works that have influenced him to venture to try digital formats for his comics.

What is the digital comic? What are the differences with traditional paper comic? Albert will give you the answers to these questions through examples, and then explain what you need to know about color and possibilities in terms of digital media narrative.

Making a digital comic does not imply that you have to put aside ink and paper. Albert will show you the analog materials you need to draw, among papers, pencils, markers, brushes, inks and watercolors. It will also explain the materials for working in digital and Adobe Photoshop tools for comic artists.

You will choose the format in which you are going to publish your comic: Instagram, downloadable PDF, multiple platforms? Albert will advise you to make the right decision according to your story.

Next, you will see different ways to approach the writing, you will design the characters of the cartoon and you will raise in depth the narrative of the comic so that the potencies.

Albert will teach you to design the performance and expressiveness of your characters, why an expression is worth more than a text balloon, and you will understand the drawing as another type of writing. Then, he will explain how you should digitize the comic and work it in Photoshop.

Finally, you will leave your comic ready for the screen and see in detail (from Albert's personal experience) how you can promote it on networks and take advantage of your comic.