Everyone who loves art classes has, at some point in time, thought about making their own comic characters or stories. Making a comic book is actually not as hard to do as you may think.
First, pick a concept for your story or design. When writing, begin working on the plotline of a short story and decide in what direction you want the story to go. For example, should it be an adventure, action, sad or a happy story? Once this has been decided, then you can start writing. As you do this, make sure you draw thumbnails – they don’t have to be perfect for now.
When you are done with that, define the characters. Describe them in drawing in such a way that anyone can recognise them at a glance, so your style is memorable. Make sure you do a lot of practice. This is the only way you are going to come up with identical images. Make sure you do the artwork of the thumbnails on a sheet of paper, so that if you don’t like a particular one, you can cut it out instead of starting all over again.
Note the ink colors you use. It is wise to have a color chart for every object or character in your comic creation. This way, all the artwork will be uniform. In addition to the ink colors, choose a suiting font for the wording. Remember, not to make it too wordy by adding speech or description to every panel. You don’t need to describe too much because the reader can already see it in the pictures.
Lastly, make your comic simple and easy to read. Sometimes it is not about how well the pictures are drawn, but how well arranged they are.
Many people are making a living out of comic books. For starters, making short stories and designs for kid’s comic books is probably the best way, as they are the easiest to produce and certainly have the market.