How to Make Comic Book Characters More Expressive x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

How to Make Comic Book Characters More Expressive w/ Clayton Barton - How to Draw Comics Academy youtube.com/live/JHl9WPkS5…

Did you catch today’s Live lesson? We dug into something I think every comic artist struggles with at some point: How to give your characters more character. You know… that stiffness that sneaks into your poses, where even a “heroic stance” just looks kind of meh? We broke

I'd been thinking about how often the pelvis gets skipped over when we’re learning to draw the figure. We focus on the chest, the abs… But the pelvis? It’s the foundation. It literally connects the top of the body to the bottom! And if that part’s off, even just a little, the

It’s strange how fast your confidence can crack. One rough sketch turns into five. The last thing you finished didn’t work out the way you hoped. Maybe you took a couple of days off, and now everything feels off. Suddenly you’re questioning things that used to feel solid. Not

Going Live tonight for a brand new episode of the How to Draw Comics Podcast. I’ll be chatting with comic writer and creator Michael Oden, the mind behind Elysian Fields: Reborn, over on the YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=iC81_t… We’re diving into what it really takes to make

How to Draw Comics Podcast #2: How Comic Writers REALLY Choose Artists w/ Michael Oden x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

One of the most powerful parts of the How to Draw Comics Academy is something I don’t think gets talked about enough - the feedback sessions. In this post, I'm sharing with you a recent critique I did for Matt Nickola, where I went in and reconstructed the pose of a female

I love the look of this book! So damn cool.

New drawing lessons every single week for just $9/month? Yep. That’s what you get inside the How to Draw Comics Academy. But it’s not just random tutorials. This is a full-on learning program designed to teach you everything you need to become a pro comic book artist, from the

Today Im gonna listen to some feedback from Clayton Barton - How to Draw Comics Academy and redo page 5 of Re//Lease!! New mic! No more audio issues here! youtube.com/watch?v=VCGxr5…

It’s one thing to draw a cool looking character. It’s another thing to draw them consistently across a whole comic. Tonight at 9:30PM EST I’m running a live class on YouTube all about how to do just that - Drawing Consistent Characters for Comics. We’ll cover how to lock in

Drawing Consistent Characters for Comics x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Did you catch last night’s class? We went live with a lesson on drawing consistent characters for comics - how to keep your characters locked in across every panel, no matter the pose or angle. It’s one of those things that sounds simple… until you try to do it. Now, quick

This character came out of nowhere during the live demo… and now I kinda want to keep her. She was the example I sketched up during our Live class on drawing consistent characters for comics - where we tackled how to keep a character looking like themselves across every panel,

Looking forward to this!

This was a fun project to work on.

So intensely epic.

The freshly edited version of my latest YouTube tutorial - How to Draw Consistent Characters in Comics - is premiering now! In this one, I show you how to design a character from the ground up, then draw them consistently across three different comic panels. We cover

Such a fun piece to work on.