A living plan, edited as it’s worked through

Draw your own comics,
one page at a time.

A mostly-free plan for going from learning to draw to making loose, expressive, stylized comics — the bones of a path, updated as it’s actually followed. You fill in the specifics.

Starting pointComplete beginner, pencil & paper
Time budgetWhatever you can fit in
FocusComics, leaning cartoon — not superhero or anime
FormatSelf-paced, years not weeks
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02 · Learning to draw →

The short version

Get set up with the opening of Drawabox — materials, pen grip, drawing from the shoulder. Then learn to draw from two YouTube playlists side by side: Draw Like a Sir for the concepts and Peter Han for instruction and homework. Watch a video or so of each, practice until you’re proficient (not perfect), researching your own practice material as needed, then move on. After that: construction, perspective, gesture, character design, and finally comics.

This plan is edited as it’s worked through. Modules marked done describe what actually worked; modules not started yet are the plan as it stands, and will change if something better turns up. Draw as much as you can, whenever you can — small sessions count. This is a multi-year hobby, not a bootcamp.

Principles behind the plan

The plan

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