How to Start Drawing Comics - Working with Primitives

Learn some basic comic pencil techniques from Ryan Benjamin! Ryan has been working with Marvel for decades and is here to share some tips on planning pages, line quality, primitive shapes, gesture, heads, and more. If you enjoyed this lesson make sure to check out the premium course where Ryan will go into more detail on these concepts and demo how to draw a comic page from start to finish - 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Basic Materials 02:28 - Red and Blue Pencils 03:17 - Getting Started 04:49 - Primitive Shapes 07:36 - Thinking with Primitive Forms 11:46 - Outro RELATED MARVEL YOUTUBE LINKS: How to Make Comics - Marvel's The Art of Storytelling - Sketching Marvel Character Portraits with Ryan Benjamin - #drawingcomics #drawingbasics #marvelcomics Subscribe to Proko: Don't miss new tutorials - Hit the BELL! Premium Videos - Pose photo sets - FOLLOW PROKO: Email Newsletter- Instagram - Twitter - Facebook - Tumblr - Pinterest - WATCH MORE PROKO: Latest Uploads: Figure Drawing: Art of Caricature: Popular Videos: ABOUT PROKO: Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching. CREDITS: Artist | Instructor - Ryan Benjamin () Producer - Stan Prokopenko (), Sean Ramsey (), Patrick Bosworth () Production Assistance - Patrick Bosworth, Sean Ramsey, Stephen Clark (), Kristian Nee () Editing - Patrick Bosworth, Sean Ramsey Publishing - John Birchall, Alex Otis Music Used with Permission Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra Additional music by ABC Music Library