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themightyfro — Comics Lettering Theory Part 2
Published: 2005-05-17 05:56:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 16048; Favourites: 365; Downloads: 2561
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This is part 2 of the tutorial. If you haven't read part 1, here is the [LINK TO PART 1 OF 2]Here is Part 2 of 2 of the second of my adventures into comics lettering tutorials. This one has lots more picture examples, so I had to split it into two parts. This isn't so much a direct tutorial as an exploration of some of the theory behind different uses for lettering. For example, here we'll be talking about: creating emphasis using bold and italics, the effects of breaking up dialogue in different ways, the use of the double dash (--) and ellipsis (...), color and typography. In the first tutorial we learned what buttons to press, now we're going to talk about how to use that knowledge!
Special thanks to and who did the art for most of the example pictures.
Again, I'd like this to be a work in progress, so please give me your questions, comments, complaints, and general feedback!
- chris
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For some reason when I click download, it says it isn't available (?)
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Am I missing something? Where is the actual tutorial?
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Press the download image button on the right underneath "more like this" that will bring up the actual tutorial. What you're seeing right now is a preview pic set by because the tutorial's file was too large. Many other tutorials are also set up this way. Hope this helps!
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thanks for the tutorials on lettering. this helped me with a paper for class about creating comics too. it was great, and i loved how you used Blankets as an example. <3
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thanks for the tutorials on lettering. this helped me with a paper for class about creating comics too. it was great, and i loved how you used Blankets as an example. <3 that really was an amazingly done graphic novel.
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you should do one about balloon shapes with more techincal detail about how to approach that other than just the regular balloon model
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Thank you so much for this! I'm sure many comic book -future- artists are deeply grateful!
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Great tutorial, answered many of the questions I was trying to find informed opinions on. I've seen that all these elements can change or enhance how dialogue is presented, but I wasn't sure exactly how.
One thing, though, is that I found the text difficult to read. I am not able to read large amounts of text on screen as it is; I usually have the font size bumped up much higher than usual. Not possible with a picture.
In the end, I printed this out, which I hope you don't mind. that worked better. But I think a non-serifed font, and, if possible, bigger font size, would have made this much easier to read, for me, and those who have similar screen-reading challenges
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Oh WOW... I just read both parts and this is awsome. Makes me want to try and create comics again.
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haha i like the last example where the speech and thought overlapped.
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don't know if anyone mentioned this already but dreamer designs does most of topcow's lettering.
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Just took a look at all three tutorials. This is going to help me out so much.
Thanks very much for taking time out to do this. 
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Fantastic set of tutorials. Thanks for sharing these with us.
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yeah! it did came out wiht help! Nice nice Tutorial .
yep! stories X__x
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wow thats way helpful! thanks, i always have trouble with layin out word bubbles an all!
Deserves a fav for the evedent amount of time youve taken to make this for others, way to go!
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Very informative... thanks for taking the time out of your life to make these for the people of DA.
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I'm glad to...to be honest, making these forces you to cement the ideas in your own mind so you can explain them clearly. So it was a valuable experience making them, as well.
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