How to draw comics when you can’t actually draw.

Chaz Hutton
5 min readMar 23, 2018

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So, you can’t draw and you’re not funny, but you want to draw comics.

Well, great news: You don’t have to be able to draw, nor be particularly funny in order to draw comics.

Here’s how:

A Pen.

First of all you’re going to need a pen. You know what? You don’t need a pen. Just as long as you’ve got something that makes a mark. A pencil, a crayon, a marker, some charcoal, a Biro, a fountain pen, a paint covered brush, a paint covered finger (preferably your own) or a highlighter, or an airbrush, or some blood (okay maybe not blood), whatever you’ve got lying around really, it doesn’t matter, just pick something you like using.

(For me, it’s an 0.4mm felt-tip pen, but You do You)

Some Paper

Or not paper. Yeah, you can draw this on anything. Walls, whiteboards, the dusty rear windscreen of your friend’s car, whatever is available to you. That said, I can highly recommend paper, historically it’s proven to be pretty reliable.

Consistency equals quality.

So, once you’ve got a pen and paper, (or whatever you’ve gone with), I guess you better learn how to draw, right?

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