The Comic is Another Story (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn to create a graphic narration from the idea to the final drawing
Become a storyteller The author and illustrator of comic books Paco Roca will teach you how to create a short comic book from start to finish, from the birth of the idea to the full color result. This course will allow you to delve deeply into the creation of a comic, discovering from the hand of the award-winning author the narrative mechanisms, techniques and tricks to achieve harmony between texts and illustrations. Humor, action, constumbrismo? It does not matter what your vision of the genre is. Paco will teach you all his work process and you can adapt it to your narrative style.

What will you learn in this online course?
To warm up the engines, Paco Roca will guide you with a brief introduction to the world of comics and the creative process of a story. Next, you will work on the search for the idea (the seed of the comic), going through the most important part of the documentation. Once well informed and with clear ideas, you will focus your story beginning to elaborate the script, learning to divide it in its different parts and outlining the characters.

When you have the story on track, Paco will teach you to make several sketches, which you will use to present the point of view, the scenes, the plans, the actions … Then you will structure all the information in the available space so that the comic works in harmony and readability. It will be time to pass it in pencil. You will learn to look for the graphic style that best suits the story. You will continue with the inking, the shadows and the color. Finally, you will learn to add the final labels to your comic.

And voilà! In 15 video lessons you will have become a true master of graphic narration.

What is this course’s project?
As a final project of the course, you will create your own two-page comic with a self-contained story, that is, with a beginning and an end, following the style of Paco Roca’s publications in El País Semanal. Although the exercise for this course consists of two pages, the method of work learned will serve you perfectly to create a longer comic or even a graphic novel.

Who is this online course for?
This course is aimed at anyone who likes to draw and wants to learn to tell stories through comics, one of the most free and creatively exciting media.

Requirements and materials
You will need basic knowledge of drawing and writing. As for the material, prepare paper, pencil, markers or brushes, a computer with Photoshop and a printer.