SuitabookDrawing urban heroes
William Potter
- Reading
- Try it as a hands-on project: choose one character or setting exercise, then invite your child to explain how perspective, dialogue or panel choices help tell the story.
- Themes
- Fighting as a subject for comics: The guide teaches readers to design characters who fight and to plan fight scenes. Fighting is treated as material for drawing and choreography; the book's wider attitude towards violence is not established.
- Learning visual storytelling: Readers are guided through drawing characters and urban locations and experimenting with dialogue and storytelling styles. The book presents these as practical art techniques and encourages readers to develop a personal style.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes martial arts and hand-to-hand combat, with instruction on choreographing fights. The extent or intensity of any depicted violence is not clear.