How to Start Drawing Comics - Working with Primitives

Learn some basic comic pencil techniques from Ryan Benjamin! Ryan has been working with Marvel for decades and is here to share some tips on planning pages, line quality, primitive shapes, gesture, heads, and more. If you enjoyed this lesson make sure to check out the premium course where Ryan will go into more detail on these concepts and demo how to draw a comic page from start to finish - https://proko.com/marvel

00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Basic Materials
02:28 - Red and Blue Pencils
03:17 - Getting Started
04:49 - Primitive Shapes
07:36 - Thinking with Primitive Forms
11:46 - Outro

RELATED MARVEL YOUTUBE LINKS:
How to Make Comics - Marvel's The Art of Storytelling -    • How to Make Comics - Marvel's The Art...  
Sketching Marvel Character Portraits with Ryan Benjamin - https://www.youtube.com/live/nAcxUPr3...

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.


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Artist | Instructor - Ryan Benjamin (https://www.ryanbenjamin.com/)
Producer - Stan Prokopenko (http://www.stanprokopenko.com), Sean Ramsey (http://www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com), Patrick Bosworth (https://www.patrickdavidbosworth.com)
Production Assistance - Patrick Bosworth, Sean Ramsey, Stephen Clark (https://www.peppermintgentleman.com), Kristian Nee (https://www.kristiannee.com/)
Editing - Patrick Bosworth, Sean Ramsey

Publishing - John Birchall, Alex Otis

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
Additional music by ABC Music Library