Character Development - Creating Comics Start to Finish!

How do you make your characters more interesting and relatable to your reader? Here are some tips and guidelines that will help you create and write characters that your readers care about!
This video is part of a series where you'll learn how to conceptualize, write, script, draw, ink, color, letter, prep for print, print, crowdfund, and publish your comic books!
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0:00-0:56 Intro and New Workbook
0:56-2:32 What is the “Why”
2:32-3:12 Getting the Reader to Care
3:12-4:43 A Flawed Character is More Believable
4:43-5:15 Documenting Character Traits
5:15-6:40 Bringing Your Characters to Life
6:40-9:12 Visual Development
9:12-11:26 Show! Don’t Tell
11:26-12:56 Sponsor & Outro

[@Sn0wShepherd]

Something I like to do when I'm developing the personality of a character that I'm writing about is to have that character interact with another character and kind of voice acted. I write down the best stuff I come up with and then I have the character interact with those things that I wrote down. We all do self testing and self checking in Our Minds when we psychologically consider saying something or we're thinking about the events of a day Etc. Most writers don't put their characters through that self testing methodology but it can come out with some really interesting results when you're writing reactive dialogue. Great video I'm taking notes because I've been told I should do some Comics are graphic novel or something as well and I have no idea what I'm doing so I hope to learn from you

[@stevegovea1]

Thank you so much for your channel.

[@Jollygreen2854]

I don’t see a link to the workbook. Am I nuts?

[@ArtbyGalen]

Hey there! Sorry, it's the link under where it says "my comics" - I ought to make that more specific. Here's the direct link for ya! cwsbookstore.com/categories/non-fiction/creating-comics-start-to-finish-workbook/