10 Steps to Create Comic Characters

By Vineet Raj Kapoor

"Sheikh Chilli" is a notorious comic character popular in India. Here are some exclusive pictures to provide a step-by-step guide to readers for understanding the procedure of conceptualizing and designing a comic character.

Step 1: The rough scribbles

The rough scribbles The first step towards making a comic book or a design starts with rough scribbles. So, first of all you would need to make the characters on whom the story is going to be based. For the same, you would first need to make rough scribbles of the character based on the character details provided.

Step 2: Head scribble expressions

After reviewing the scribbles made in the first step , the next step involves detailing the head of some of these scribbles that were made earlier.

Step 3: Head Tweaking

Based on shortlisting out of these, some of the heads would be tweaked to add more detail.

Step 4: Head final touch

Now the final head is selected and final touches are given to the same.

Step 5: Basic shapes

Step 6: Model sheet

Step 7: Panel

Now, the panel needs to be created which is based on our comic prototype.

Step 8: Rough thumbnails

Now rough storyboard is made keeping in mind camera angles and shot distance as described in the screenplay.

Step 9: Final clean up

Step 10: The final touch

The last step involves final coloring (ink and paint). All the colouring and painting gives the final output i.e. the comic!

About the Author:

Program Director, Chitkara University; Mentor, Arena 17, Chandigarh; Chief Mentor, Shiksha.com; Career Expert, Balaji Telefilims Education Institution ICE, Chandigarh