Sketches, Doodles & Scribbles

This is an article from writer editor Tim Stout's WordPress blog.

If you have a difficult time writing loglines here are two logline templates I’ve slightly altered from Max Adams’ book The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide.

The first is for stories where the protagonist’s problem is an external force like a monster or evil men. The second is when a protagonist’s problem is an internal bad guy, like a poor attitude toward love or growing older.

1. (Title) is a (genre) about (protagonist) who must (tangible goal) or else (dire thing that will occur if protagonist fails — Ex: who must find the lost Ark of the Covenant and keep it safe or else the Nazis will use it to rule the world; Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark).

Every couple of months or so I scour the internet looking for new and innovative webcomic templates to use, since ComicPress has abandoned us and Webcomic is not very useful. Here are a few that I came across recently ... not that they are necessarily new, but I was not aware of their existence.

Rarebit is an HTML Webcomic Template written in simple and extensively commented code that even an HTML/JS beginner can figure it out, but modular enough that an HTML/JS pro can make it special. Everything is done in HTML and vanilla JavaScript, you don't need Bootstrap or JQuery or anything. Just download the template and plug your comics in. 

The second one is ...

For those of you familiar with Square Space here is a template by Clay Yount.

Love these behind the scenes pages on Brian Wood and Gary Brown’s book Black Road. I personally love this gritty style of art and it great to see the rough thumbnail state. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. 

About the book:

Black RoadMeet Magnus the Black, neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but a man true to his word. When a ranking official under his care is brutally murdered, he's prepared to hunt the killers to the frozen tip of Norway, religious war be damned. Northlanders creator BRIAN WOOD returns to the Viking genre along with artist GARRY BROWN (The Massive, Catwoman) and DAVE McCAIG (Batman, American Vampire) in this all-new serie

Jonathan Rector unleashes the ACTION PACK (Clips Studio / Manga Studio Actions)  and they are YUUUGE time savers. They are based on Freddie E Williams’ Photoshop actions which he talks about in his book The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics. 

Whether you are new to working digitally or have been using Clips Studio/Manga Studio for a while now, here is a set of 12 powerful time-saving auto actions for CSP/MS5! This pack contains the most often relied upon actions, GREAT for use on every comic book page!