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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9780823010301
ISBN: 0823010309
Label: Watson-Guptill
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: August 01, 2004
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Release Date: August 01, 2004
Studio: Watson-Guptill
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
America's leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the fourth in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Acclaimed comic book illustrator Mark Chiarello and award-winning letterer Todd Klein demonstrate dozens of surefire strategies, practical techniques, and professional secrets for dynamic comic book coloring and lettering. They use DC's world-famous characters to demonstrate an array of techniques, covering such topics as the pros and cons of lettering by hand or by computer, creating balloons and fonts, logo designs, working with color, and creating special effects. The animated step-by-step instructions are informative, stimulating, and clear enough for even beginners to follow. In addition, every technique shown in this guide conforms to up-to-date industry standards. The perfect how-to on everything coloring and lettering, this one-stop sourcebook is packed with a wealth of tested techniques, practical advice, and professional secrets for the aspiring comic artist.
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Just to start off - if you are just beginning to learn how to do computer coloring, DO NOT buy this book. Not yet, at least. The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics is not written for the novice, but seems largely aimed at those who have had at least some experience with coloring before. While I'm sure I'll get some use out of this book later on, right now it is simply sitting on my shelf, unused, next to my other computer coloring books.
The DC Comics Guides are always ... Read More
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I got this book to accelerate my knowledge, but I decided that it s not as good as other books of the same kind. Namely, Hi-Fi Guide to coloring Comics, and the lettering book by Comicraft. I got this book because its a book about DC comics, my personal favorites, and I thought I would get better direction on how to "do these things like they do" Sadly this just isnt the case. The direction is just a skimming off the top and gives great history, but actually I have yet to find anything helpful in ... Read More
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This book is a good guide for begginers on comic bussiness, helps to know about how to color a modern comic book, the best way to finish a printable product and how to letter; and give some info about comic coloring history.
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I bought this book thinking that it would guide me by hand and show me HOW DC colorists actually go about coloring. I was not disappointed but I still was not satiated.
The book is very informative in showing you what not to do and the rules of coloring (the color theory, etc) but it really doesn't go step by step through the coloring process, which would have made me give the book a five star rating.
Definitely worthy of a buy because it goes over many things that most ... Read More
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