 | Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results by Brian Miller
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $10.50 By far the best book about helping you color your art work for the web or print. Caveat: You'll need Adobe Photoshop to execute some of the techniques in this book. You will still gain more insight from the Hi-Fi Coloring studio. A good buy even if you don't have Adobe Photoshop.
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 | The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.05 Bill Watterson, in my opinion, is the Michael Jordan of comic strips. In the first 20 pages he goes over the history, licensing, influences and process for making his comic. If you are going to learn how to make comics, you might as well learn from the best. Watterson's work should show you that your imagination should have NO LIMITS.
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 | The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics by Klaus Janson
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $6.90 You don't have to read the entire book, just go straight to the parts about inking to understand the principles.
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 | Mechanika: Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang by Doug Chiang
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $12.98 If you want to create great science fiction art work then this is your book. Step-by-step examples galore! Great Adobe Photoshop tips for digital painting.
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 | The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity by Robert Mankoff
Buy used from: $0.06 Comic characters: check. Coloring for the comic: check. Storyline: check. Creating new ideas for the comic day in and day out: NOT SO SURE...Uh,Oh. This book will help you with the transitions of coming up with fresh new ideas that will help drive your comic.
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 | Visual Writing by LearningExpress Editors
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $2.01 There are a lot of books out there to help you make up a comic story, but there are not many books to help you STRUCTURE an idea for that story. Visual Writing presents six different visual maps you can use, but one in particular is the Plot Diagram which is used for creative writing. Ignore chapters 1 @ 2 and go straight to chapter 3 where the explanations of the different visual maps begin.
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 | Alan Moore's Writing For Comics Volume 1 by Alan Moore
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.68 I've always known about PLOT for stories but never understood how to develop an effective one myself. Alan Moore uncovers what a plot is and isn't. Go to pages 28-33 to understand yourself.
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 | Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $13.57 Hands down the best book for comic (art for that matter) perspective drawing. Cheeseman-Meyer has done a superb job of educating and simplifying perspective. A must have!
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 | DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics by Mark Chiarello
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.98 Want to understand color theory? Just read chapter 2 and you will have most of what you need on the subject. Use this book in conjunction with Hi-Fi Color For Comics and you won't go wrong.
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 | How To Color For Comics by GURU-eFX
Buy used from: $6.00 This is the book to have if you want your comic to have the ANIME style of coloring for your work. Go to pages 74-85 to learn how to apply this style. The KEY is learning how to deselect from your lasso tool selections.
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 | Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels by Tom Bancroft
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $13.01 Good insight on how to start a character. I'm not talking about just for the personality of the character but the actual look for any character you want to design/create. An excellent choice.
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 | Face Off: How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits by Harry Hamernik
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $11.96 You can learn how to do caricatures just by looking at the illustrations! Pick this one up.
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 | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cartooning but Were Afraid to Draw (Christopher Hart Titles) by Christopher Hart
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $2.00 When it comes to "takes and expressions" this book is surprisingly helpful. Go straight to the part of the book about "takes" and you will see that you can apply these "takes" to your own characters.
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 | Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, Second Edition by Mike Mattesi
Buy new: $16.74 / Used from: $9.95 This is the book to get if you want your characters to have a looseness for their look in a comic page.
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 | Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes by Jack Hamm
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.48 Excellent resource to draw your own environments for your characters. Great reference book!
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