Lettering
Balloon Tales (articles) - Collection of tutorials on drawing different types of balloons in Illustrator
3 Methods of Making Thought Balloons (picture) - Nate Piekos
Reading between the lines (picture) - Nate Piekos
Comic Book Grammar & Tradition (article) - Blambot
5 Amateur Lettering Mistakes (picture) - Nate Piekos
5 More Amateur Lettering Mistakes (picture) - Nate Piekos
Comic Layout Tutorial: The Comic Lettering Spell (article) - Chris Oatley
Basic Comic Book Dialogue Lettering using Adobe Illustrator (video) - Anthony Mathenia
Better Letterer (images) - Blambot
WA Tips & Tricks for Word Balloons in Photoshop (video) - Robin Childs
Nate Piekos (videos) - YouTube channel from the creator of Blambot all about lettering for comics
Being the shortest step in the comic making process, people tend to assume lettering is easy. It isn’t. In reality there are a lot of tiny details involved in lettering a page, and plenty of subtle mistakes that are all too easy to make.
Bad lettering can really ruin the pacing of a page or break a reader out from a story, so let’s make sure that doesn’t happen in yours!
Table of Contents
Intro
Before You Start
Writing
- Overview
- It All Starts With An Idea
- Thought Dumping
- Outlining
- World Building
- Characters
- Writing Scenes
- Breaking Scenes Down
- Scripts
- Dialogue
- Revision
- Choosing A Title
- Writer's Block
Hiring A Team
- Overview
- Sorting Out Your Budget
- Writing A Solicitation
- Where To Find Your Team
- What Makes A Good Partner
- Contracts
Drawing
Colouring
Lettering
- Overview
- General Tips
- Standard Black vs Rich Black
- Choosing A Font
- Font Types
- When To Bold Text
- Sound Effects
Marketing
Publishing
Printing
- Overview
- Getting Print Ready Files
- Offset vs Digital Printers
- Why Page Count Matters
- Book Formats And Binding Types
- How Many Copies To Print
- Aesthetics
- Tips For Saving Money
- Printer Comparison Table