Anatomy of a Hellboy Short Comic

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If you want to make short comics, you need to read and study short comics. Here is how to write your short comic based on everything I've learned from Mike Mignola's short comic "Dr Carp's Experiment.
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[@jakeparker44]

If you want to make short comics, you need to read and study short comics. Here is how to write your short comic based on everything I've learned from Mike Mignola's short comic "Dr Carp's Experiment." Enjoy it, and hopefully you have some more time now to work on your comics!

[@aadiths4492]

Which sketch book is that jake....??

[@hanh7395]

Hey! Any suggestions on short comics to read?

[@user-lk8ho6bp3n]

thanks jake. what you do is very cool . jake I just finished plot writing. then I proceed to the storyboard, and then to drawing. then scanning, then drawing in clip studio. this is my method. advise something))

[@user-lk8ho6bp3n]

my english shit but hopefully understand

[@rinkoos1315]

This must be really annoying but I really wanted to ask what ink do you use to refill your brush pens

[@StudioHannah]

Jake, how do you always know the perfect topics to make a video for? Seriously, this is the third time in a row you’ve posted a video covering PRECISELY something I’ve been looking into and starting to study.

[@s0ne01]

EXACTLY MANS LOWKEY A GENIUS

[@thatoneidiotnamedme6990]

Exactly! 😅😃

[@Indian_awa]

Hey man nothing go to ur story and say to your friend or any member U will get the result

[@punkeasy]

"Jake, how do you always know the perfect topics" By stealing other people's content I would think. What a sham of a barren talentless back you are sir!

[@TrentKaniuga]

This made me want to draw another comic again. Thanks for sharing your passion for Hellboy Jake!

[@ottebya]

I have NEVER seen someone breakdown a story/comic/sequential art this way, especially that its Mignola, JUST WOW, this is SO cool, please do more of these!!! 🙏 🙏

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Thesis: All For One Antithesis: One For All Synthesis: All For One and One For All.

[@anythinginvolvingsharks]

i can't get over how good "Darkness Calls" is.

[@eboi5575]

Thank you so much for speak about color for situations

[@ashputtel]

2 page comics are hard to do! My favorite Hellboy short story is the one where he tries pancakes .. It's adorable!

[@samcallanan3633]

He'll never come back to hell he just had pancakes

[@dustinperez545]

Vids like this, Artist like Jake just makes me fall in love with art even more 😊

[@Mauritanya]

Fun Fact: I'm in the first semester of art college in my hometown in southwest Brazil, and this quarentine hit us in the 3rd week of the class and we are devasted because we are super excited for it, and inspired by Inktober we created a list of themes for drawing during this enclosure weeks. The themes are: -Mitology(tales, creatures, gods, etc) -Studio Ghibli -Cyber/Steam punk -Literature -Arquitecture's from the past -Fantasy i don't know if everyone is excited as i am but i'm diving into it LoL ... Anyway, thanks for the inspiration!

[@GarrettRomain]

Keep on drawing and have fun!

[@user-mw6cu8hj5c]

Hello, how did your semester go?

[@alotofbeeandmo8965]

Man, I can't emphasize how much I needed this insight and how much it has helped my process. Thanks Mr. Parker.

[@darneldegand]

Excellent breakdown, thanks

[@ThompsonBrosStudios]

Love Hellboy, and your work as well. You always have great insights in your videos.

[@thecrazyandthewild]

This was fantastic, Jake! I love Hellboy and never saw the comics in this light. Thank you!!!!!

[@karlytopzz2631]

*casually drawing masterpiece*

[@stevenbrown1225]

I love " The Ghoul". Incorporating the classic poetry of Shakespear and others into a story of a monster who eats the flesh of the dead was Gaiman levels of brilliance!

[@programmerart5447]

This was an incredibly helpful and informative video. What a great way to break down the material.

[@stilljay7757]

Hey your channel is amazing! I’ve been trying to write comics for about a year and a half now and have a hard time getting ideas onto the paper. You lay things out in a very comprehensive and informative way that not only makes me a better writer and author, but gives me a new appreciation for my favorite comics! Keep on making amazing videos, Hope life is treating you well. Thanks!

[@theamazingartist4324]

Can you make a video of you explaining how you make your skeleton for your characters and how you think of what they should look like

[@anthonyikediuba7790]

really great video Jake. Thank you! Honestly wasn't too sold on the idea of breaking my story idea into short stories but this helped me better understand what you meant. Now I'm really excited to push out some short stories! Thank you!

[@tjduprey]

I know I now have a better understanding of mixed metaphors lol... peeling back they layers of a pyramid

[@Vi4ll]

perfectly explained. Thanks a lot mr. J!

[@ozero_animation]

I just read the Dr.Carps Experiment and your video came out. Unbelievable!

[@addieanddaddy7562]

This video definitely reinvigorated my desire to tell stories through comics/GNs! Time to get to work!

[@BenMellingerArt]

just what I needed when I needed it! gotta love Mike Mignola :D

[@RisteSekuloski]

Excellent analysis! It sheds a new light to this story! Thanks!

[@george-qz9un]

Hey Jake! Your short comic videos have helped me so much and I keep coming back to review it again. I hope you’ll be posting more videos again, and maybe a video for creating a longer, serialized, maybe webcomic length comic? Thank you so much, I hope you are well during these times.

[@Hum0ng0us]

Holy shit this was made easy to understand!! Thank you so much!!

[@h2relic721]

Gotta love Hellboy

[@basilebuisson]

Really love your analysis, I love mignola's work, you sould make more hellboy videos!!

[@Blairaptor]

Thanks so much for this video and your others like it! I keep getting ahead of myself and designing big story projects (probably because I mostly consume longform stories) and I want to learn how to make things smaller so I don't overwhelm myself. Plus I just love talking about what makes good stories work!

[@jononaidoo2893]

This was so cool jake, thanks for sharing this with us. Ive always wanted to do a short comic, but I didn't know where to start.

[@hughdidit]

Excellent breakdown of the story structure!

[@darioscomicschool1111]

Gonna check this out Tomorrow! Thank you so much for this one!

[@salmondjoy]

Loved it! Thank you Jake!

[@ernestonavarro7242]

this was so awesome thank you so much Jake I wish you had a class like this with feedback on our own stories

[@engineeringart95]

Thank you for this! Surprisingly not many people share the same amount of fascination for the folklore-inspired short stories (side quests) than the main plot. For me some are hauntingly profound and others are witty and eerie. You chose the best story to communicate the mastery behind them, hell of a job! ;)

[@s0ne01]

LOVING THE VIDEOS LATELY, ITS SOME GREAT CONTENT

[@nigromant9469]

this is just great, love it

[@LorisCrochetCorner]

Great video Jake!!! Tyfs. Stay safe hun Much love to you 💞💞

[@orkunsanal]

Love this! Thank you master!

[@thatoneidiotnamedme6990]

Awesome! I love hellboy

[@spoquerusse1]

Excellent video thank you!!

[@user-lk8ho6bp3n]

thenks master jake parker

[@kisadamgabor6662]

Hello Jake! That video was very interesting! Good luck! - a fan from Hungary.

[@MrDeathKatana]

Great stuff. thanks man

[@caroodraws]

I GOTTA read Hellboy now you've convinced me

[@JTR_3]

Shmaro-caro also check out BPRD from the same Hellboy universe. It’s like the best tv series never made.

[@alejandromolina7270]

You also got to read Lord Baltimore. It's a separate series, but it's so good.

[@A8M8R8A]

Fantastic video, just awesome. I am woring in a personal comic book and I feel all that struggling, I highly recomend to read "the anatomy of a story" of Jhon Truby to follow more in detail what has been explained here.

[@RoofRailways101train]

My dude, I’ve followed your art on pinterest and now I know you have a KZbin im watching it all the time

[@popcultureandcomicbookstuf6455]

Awesome video, thank you. Great intro music

[@melanmalvindicta]

Who's here 2021??

[@rickharold7884]

Cool. Great breakdown. Thx

[@MrDylanButton]

Hey Jake! I just had a thought, how about you do a whole series like this, for instance you could analyse a studio Ghibli film or another comic, maybe even an animation like the apex legends animated shorts. I would love to see this a series. Thanks for reading :) have a nice day

[@sithlordkrylar8526]

@desperado just shut up

[@KeithHarper]

good stuff. nice breakdown.

[@artbyshea7585]

Thanks Jake😁👍

[@tieranholtet1501]

love the new intro

[@spoonerismstuff]

Tieran Holtet it looks flames

[@nightyonetwothree]

you had such a nice pencil scetch, being able to make Mignola-styled illustration, but going for such a casual way :(

[@tangledminds]

Hey Jake. I hope you are doing well. If you can ever make a video, can you please make a video on how to decide or come up with a style for a book - graphic novel or a picture book project? Thank you soo much. All the love to you!

[@AndrewMaksymBrainNectar]

Love Hellboy!

[@ericarmstrong7906]

really nice critique just the view of color and word balloons are very insightful. Those are things that people would have noticed subconsciously as they were intended, but there is no way most people would see that subtlety. Thank you very much for your insight.

[@yungethix8765]

dude you are really underrated

[@samankucher5117]

Awesome

[@sadianuri5158]

Amazing

[@alexaviercomics4241]

Is it me or he finally smiled in his intro

[@grahamwelch5011]

I know this episode was about comics and of that sort.... but.. I really want to see you do more straight up drawing, just getting out a piece of paper, sketch and ink. I know it probably isn't alway practical, but that's what drew me to your channel and art in the first place. Just watching you create as you explained and gave some great advice. Right now I'm just happy you're making videos again, but I'm dying to see your creative process more often.

[@jakeparker44]

cool. Yeah, I'm about due for some back to basics drawing videos.

[@tylerh3378]

How about a series where you break down all the short stories? :)))))))

[@adam_keoki]

Hey Jake. Excellent video. You have a few different formats of Hellboy(library edition, digital, etc). Why? lol. I've heard about the omnibus edition and such. What do you like about each?

[@airfox]

Dope!

[@zionleach3001]

I want to know how in the many years he wrote hellboy comics, like many long franchines from getting boring?

[@tai0purto]

I love this new series about comic making! I bought the "Drawing Comics" series on SVS years ago, but I feel this is a great addition to it, build on top of it!

[@RoofRailways101train]

What sketchbook do you use here? And what would you recommend?

[@gyebisarpong5904]

Can make a video talking about using marker

[@munchstudiokl7933]

cool

[@somethingventured3]

What reader/app/service do you use for indie books?

[@mledra1]

Thanks Jake for all that you do for the community. Does this apply to things like a children's book as well? I am trying to get a start on my own children's book and I don't know where to start. Thanks!

[@jakeparker44]

It does apply to children's books. Though some story books are more of an extended joke with a punch line. There are some that do follow these beats. I would take some time and study a few of your favorite children's books and see what makes them work.

[@mledra1]

@@jakeparker44 Thanks for the advice and the breakdown in your video. Maybe it's what I needed to start putting pencil to paper.

[@irvingramirez2335]

Can you do invincible?

[@mishal7718]

Jake what kind of ink are you using for brushpen?

[@harithanatarajan4341]

Can you make a short video about how to design a robot.that will be a great one.pls reply

[@purpleocean5958]

i have a question , is inktober only black and white or can you use colo(u)rs

[@herobot1]

Awesome video Jake. Really cool analysis. Quick question, and I'm sorry if you get that often but what is the pen you use to ink your Hellboy sketch? Keep up the great work!

[@jakeparker44]

That's a Copic Gasenfude Pen.

[@herobot1]

@@jakeparker44 Thank you!

[@RenePfitzner]

This is brilliant as always, thanks Jake! I love the analysis you brought to this comic. If you want more of this, sign up to Jake's Patreon or take his classes on SVSLearn.com, he has a bunch more lessons on the craft of comic storytelling. One small quibble: The demon they summoned was Hellboy himself, not the monkey, they used HB's blood to demonify the monkey. Potentially to make an army of demon monkeys without the hassle of the summoning ritual? Thanks again, Jake!

[@jakeparker44]

I like that explanation a lot!

[@DanielaAlarconilustracion]

thank you so much for this. elementary school teachers please take not and cut the crap with the "beginning - middle and end" bs

[@aRBy125]

Hey Jake, I don't know if you take suggestions from the comments section here, but since it ties into this miniseries you've been posting lately; what about for those situations where, you have your characters set up, but you need a setting for them to shine in? While it kinda ties into worldbuilding, it's less about overbuilding, and more about giving them an appropriate playground.

[@omarilawson6250]

Yes dude

[@drawingmaniacsterben7144]

"click on that podcast BUTTON" while pointing on the rabbit's butt :D No great video Jake! helpfull as always!

[@Amelia_PC]

Hmm, dunno. I think it depends on the type of release the author is doing. Usually, publishers and editors aren't interested in one-shots for an IP debut. But if you're an author with an established IP and big audience, one-shots are great. My editor advised me to keep a self-contained story/ story arc (graphic novel) between 80 to 100 pages. Great video, Jake! :)

[@jakeparker44]

I agree in regards to traditional publishing. But if you’re just starting out and are self publishing you can learn a lot and gain confidence in your craft by doing short stories first.

[@Amelia_PC]

@@jakeparker44 True!

[@Swampthing86]

My favorite comic book characters The Teen Titans Nightwing The Punisher The Doom Patrol John Constantine Spider-Man Venom Suicide Squad Hellboy B. P. R. D. Swamp Thing Wonder Woman Captain America Blade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Flash Spawn Wolverine X-Men Aquaman

[@ethanj8318]

Jake where are you??

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

"He's just a regular guy, but he's anything but regular..." Oh, him too?

[@zazulakoma]

this is exactly what I needed. 1000 thanks from hungary plus 1 like

[@dimimor5795]

Jake

[@hellboy7424]

Are you talking about me?

[@jinatjahan7937]

Hello Jake how have you been, I am currently working on a story about robots but I don't know how to draw them well maybe you can help a fellow artist Sincerely, a 12-year-old artist and a new subscriber

[@dwaynepeterson7511]

Any other artists skip every KZbin add aside from Photoshop ones?

[@Psycho-Complex]

do spawn :O

[@shivadevps1490]

hey can u put a vedio that how to draw robot. pls pls pls pls pls pls pls pls big fan brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@pixydis]

Nice spoon. 0:37

[@jakeparker44]

Thanks.

[@jnsart5012]

Are you made Hellboy

[@jakeparker44]

Nope, just a huge fan.

[@Kay22-325]

When are you going to make a new video #LoveyourVids🤖🚀

[@guillermobolasdemadera345]

Just in time! Comicquarantine gang where you at!