Cartoon Final Project

For our final cartoon project I drew a comic about dinosaurs. I made the comic using water color, colored pencil, and Sharpie.

I used colored pencils to touch up the comic and add shading with the hatching and cross hatching technique. Using water colors was a challenge for me since I can't color or draw inside the lines so I used white paint frequently to cover it up outside the panels. 

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The difference between anime and manga is that anime is the cartoon show, hence the anime from animation. Manga is graphic novels/comics.

The difference between graphics novels and comic books is that a graphic novel is a longer and more complexe story condensed into one book whereas a comic book tells a story over many issues.

How are panels designed and layout in comic books, newspapers, and graphic novels? In a comic book panels can have any design/layout the artist chooses. There are often many different sizes and positions and views. Graphic novels are similar in that there are different panel sizes but there is a wider variety such as triangle or any shapes. Newspapers stick to one row of panels that usually have the same size panels.