Create Your Own Graphic Novel
Introducing a new self-paced video course students can take at their leisure: Create Your Own Graphic Novel. This fun and entertaining course consists of seven videos filled with animations, diagrams and scenes shot on location with the instructor, Mike, and his trusty orangutan sidekick, Mini-Mike.
The course simplifies the process of creating your own comic or graphic novel, making it simple to come up with an idea, plan, write and draw it, and even ideas for how to share it! The course comes with an e-book written by the instructor especially for the course, which has links to lots of helpful resources. Do you have to be a master artist to create your own graphic novel? NO! And this course will show you how!
Enjoy the first chapter of this exciting course:
Cublicle walls from a call center make great room dividers 
They are ugly, but can be fixed up 
I bought five for $1 each 
I painted the edges and covered the ugly fabric with a cheap shower curtain 
Voila! One room now becomes TWO rooms! 
A portable angled surface makes drawing artwork much easier and more accurate 
Your sketchbook is not your portfolio! 
Your sketchbook is a place to try out ideas and visually brainstorm 
It’s your creative workbench, so relax and make a messs! 
It’s not just for pictures; jot down thoughts and ideas before you forget them 
I wrote myself into a corner with a comic strip story; I did some written brainstorming to find a way to conclude it
Every word takes up space! No one wants to slog through dense blocks of text 
“Oh this is just the first chapter.” Keep your story as simple as possible! 
These panels have too many words, spelling errors, and needless explanation of the characters’ personalities. Less is more! 
I’ll say it again: your readers’ eyes will literally GLAZE OVER when confronted with huge blocks of text 
The Zebra Delguard mechanical pencils, the only one I use now 
The number on drawing pencils are important! Use 2B, 3B or 4B for your drawing and sketching
