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Drawing Hands #6: From Script Into Page (with gestures)

How I turned a page of script into a two page comic

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David Rickert
Sep 04, 2024
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Frequently in my writing I’m confronted with a page or tow that is mostly dialogue, and I have to figure out how to make sure that it isn’t just talking heads. Of course on of the ways to do this is to have your characters DOING something. But as I’ve talked about in the previous posts in this series, I like to use hands to add some liveliness to the di…

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