The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics Paperback – 1 Jan. 2009

This book is a must! Unless you want to keep doing every stage of a comic book in the old-fashioned/traditional way, you must have this book. Many books promising to reveal all the knowledge about this or that - but many times I find that "Yeah, I can take some knowledge out of it... like 15% or something... all the rest is just useless..." - but not this one: Freddie E. Williams II just opens a golden door to deep knowledge. From creating folder trees to comics templates, different workflows and how to incorporate them, tips on scanning, tips on rendering, tips on Photoshop ( the layer template for each comic page is great - I use it and works like charm for me ) . I even got the will to try a full digital workflow BECAUSE of this book. I love pencils, so I'm following the "Pencil hybrid workflow" but I'm trying to find a project that allows me to try the full digital. All its there, I think this is the best book on the subject. The title says what you will find inside - unlike  The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics  (Freddie recommends this one at some point..) but I found that one really disappointing..."The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics" is by far the best book I've read (and continuously keep reading) on the subject! 10 start! Oh damit... only 5 allowed!

A great, succinct introduction to digital drawing. It's very much American professional comic industry oriented, with should come as no surprise, but keep in mind it doesn't go into detail on how to draw digitally. It does a great job of covering techniques for streamlining the process of comic drawing with a guide to some useful tools and techniques. Again, this is a very different process to digital painting, doing covers etc. This is for those interested in doing comics in the old pencils-inks kind of way. It doesn't cover colouring, but DC has released a very decent intro to that separately.

The book focuses on the method of producing a digital comic book rather than drawing techniques. There are lots of other 'How to draw' books to help depending on what style you want to use.The tips, tricks and digital/pencil hybrid processes are brilliant and explained superbly. The underlying techniques can be used with other image software but the book relates to Photoshop.It's not the magic key for producing digital comics (if there is one I'd like a link to it please) but it will put you in a much better position to create good-looking comics quicker.The book is aimed quite high so beginner's might struggle although it might teach good habits sooner.

Good in parts, not as good in most parts. Google Sketchup is in common use in most comic books these days and while the author clearly uses it a lot, he only has one page on it (the last page of the book). Otherwise it is useful for telling you how to layout a bristol board page with guides and rulers so there are definitely good parts to this book

i am a huge fan of comics and graphic novels, and DC is my favourite comic franchise, this is such a good step by step book, and being a beginner it really goes over every point that should need to be gone over, its definitely worth what i payed

Useful. No drawing lessons at all, just Photoshop methodology. If you wish to use Manga studio, then you will need to get a different guide, but this may still be useful in helping you to "think digitally". For 12 quid you can't really go wrong!

Right, let me explain that I can't draw, have a remarkable INABILITY with computers and am no techno-geek. Nevertheless, this book is enthralling and (to me) baffling, but to all who understand digital drawing and want to learn more - I suspect its essential reading!

Very comprehensive, happy with this purchase.