If you want to make short comics, you need to read and study short comics. Here is how to write your short comic based on everything I've learned from Mike Mignola's short comic "Dr Carp's Experiment." Enjoy it, and hopefully you have some more time now to work on your comics!
thanks jake. what you do is very cool . jake I just finished plot writing. then I proceed to the storyboard, and then to drawing. then scanning, then drawing in clip studio. this is my method. advise something))
Jake, how do you always know the perfect topics to make a video for? Seriously, this is the third time in a row you’ve posted a video covering PRECISELY something I’ve been looking into and starting to study.
"Jake, how do you always know the perfect topics" By stealing other people's content I would think. What a sham of a barren talentless back you are sir!
I have NEVER seen someone breakdown a story/comic/sequential art this way, especially that its Mignola, JUST WOW, this is SO cool, please do more of these!!! 🙏 🙏
Fun Fact: I'm in the first semester of art college in my hometown in southwest Brazil, and this quarentine hit us in the 3rd week of the class and we are devasted because we are super excited for it, and inspired by Inktober we created a list of themes for drawing during this enclosure weeks. The themes are: -Mitology(tales, creatures, gods, etc) -Studio Ghibli -Cyber/Steam punk -Literature -Arquitecture's from the past -Fantasy i don't know if everyone is excited as i am but i'm diving into it LoL ... Anyway, thanks for the inspiration!
Hey Jake! Your short comic videos have helped me so much and I keep coming back to review it again. I hope you’ll be posting more videos again, and maybe a video for creating a longer, serialized, maybe webcomic length comic? Thank you so much, I hope you are well during these times.
really great video Jake. Thank you! Honestly wasn't too sold on the idea of breaking my story idea into short stories but this helped me better understand what you meant. Now I'm really excited to push out some short stories! Thank you!
I love " The Ghoul". Incorporating the classic poetry of Shakespear and others into a story of a monster who eats the flesh of the dead was Gaiman levels of brilliance!
Hey your channel is amazing! I’ve been trying to write comics for about a year and a half now and have a hard time getting ideas onto the paper. You lay things out in a very comprehensive and informative way that not only makes me a better writer and author, but gives me a new appreciation for my favorite comics! Keep on making amazing videos, Hope life is treating you well. Thanks!
Hey Jake! I just had a thought, how about you do a whole series like this, for instance you could analyse a studio Ghibli film or another comic, maybe even an animation like the apex legends animated shorts. I would love to see this a series. Thanks for reading :) have a nice day
Thank you for this! Surprisingly not many people share the same amount of fascination for the folklore-inspired short stories (side quests) than the main plot. For me some are hauntingly profound and others are witty and eerie. You chose the best story to communicate the mastery behind them, hell of a job! ;)
Thanks so much for this video and your others like it! I keep getting ahead of myself and designing big story projects (probably because I mostly consume longform stories) and I want to learn how to make things smaller so I don't overwhelm myself. Plus I just love talking about what makes good stories work!
Fantastic video, just awesome. I am woring in a personal comic book and I feel all that struggling, I highly recomend to read "the anatomy of a story" of Jhon Truby to follow more in detail what has been explained here.
really nice critique just the view of color and word balloons are very insightful. Those are things that people would have noticed subconsciously as they were intended, but there is no way most people would see that subtlety. Thank you very much for your insight.
Hey Jake. I hope you are doing well. If you can ever make a video, can you please make a video on how to decide or come up with a style for a book - graphic novel or a picture book project? Thank you soo much. All the love to you!
I know this episode was about comics and of that sort.... but.. I really want to see you do more straight up drawing, just getting out a piece of paper, sketch and ink. I know it probably isn't alway practical, but that's what drew me to your channel and art in the first place. Just watching you create as you explained and gave some great advice. Right now I'm just happy you're making videos again, but I'm dying to see your creative process more often.
My favorite comic book characters The Teen Titans Nightwing The Punisher The Doom Patrol John Constantine Spider-Man Venom Suicide Squad Hellboy B. P. R. D. Swamp Thing Wonder Woman Captain America Blade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Flash Spawn Wolverine X-Men Aquaman
This is brilliant as always, thanks Jake! I love the analysis you brought to this comic. If you want more of this, sign up to Jake's Patreon or take his classes on SVSLearn.com, he has a bunch more lessons on the craft of comic storytelling. One small quibble: The demon they summoned was Hellboy himself, not the monkey, they used HB's blood to demonify the monkey. Potentially to make an army of demon monkeys without the hassle of the summoning ritual? Thanks again, Jake!
I'd make a couple of very simple foundational points. Don't go with your first idea, however good it seems. Use it as a starting point to make something better. Your story idea must excite _you_ in some way. Don't assume that it will grip others, but you're not that into it. ie its not perfect but 'it will do'. You'll do a better job on all the hard work if you feel it's an exciting idea. And finally. Surprise the reader. If the story lulls, make something happen. We all want to be thrilled, not to have to wade through a story. I have a low boredom threshold, if I wanted a 300 page novel where a Russian man comes to term with his mortality and buys a coat, I'd read Dostoyevsky. We read comics for excitement. Excite me.
Hmm, dunno. I think it depends on the type of release the author is doing. Usually, publishers and editors aren't interested in one-shots for an IP debut. But if you're an author with an established IP and big audience, one-shots are great. My editor advised me to keep a self-contained story/ story arc (graphic novel) between 80 to 100 pages. Great video, Jake! :)
I agree in regards to traditional publishing. But if you’re just starting out and are self publishing you can learn a lot and gain confidence in your craft by doing short stories first.
I love this new series about comic making! I bought the "Drawing Comics" series on SVS years ago, but I feel this is a great addition to it, build on top of it!
Hey Jake, I don't know if you take suggestions from the comments section here, but since it ties into this miniseries you've been posting lately; what about for those situations where, you have your characters set up, but you need a setting for them to shine in? While it kinda ties into worldbuilding, it's less about overbuilding, and more about giving them an appropriate playground.
Thanks Jake for all that you do for the community. Does this apply to things like a children's book as well? I am trying to get a start on my own children's book and I don't know where to start. Thanks!
It does apply to children's books. Though some story books are more of an extended joke with a punch line. There are some that do follow these beats. I would take some time and study a few of your favorite children's books and see what makes them work.
Hey Jake. Excellent video. You have a few different formats of Hellboy(library edition, digital, etc). Why? lol. I've heard about the omnibus edition and such. What do you like about each?
Awesome video Jake. Really cool analysis. Quick question, and I'm sorry if you get that often but what is the pen you use to ink your Hellboy sketch? Keep up the great work!
Hello Jake how have you been, I am currently working on a story about robots but I don't know how to draw them well maybe you can help a fellow artist Sincerely, a 12-year-old artist and a new subscriber
