num_pages: 144
description: Noir is just as powerful in comics as it is in films: dark angles shadowy high contrast images moody lighting an anti-hero that struggles with moral conflicts: all these elements work to create a somber dark tone. In How to Draw Crime Noir Martinbrough walks the reader step-by-step through layout thumbnails staging the action and working with actual scripts. Martinborough's art is cutting edge has a 1940's vibe but comes across contemporary complelling dramatic and urban. The book also contains twenty-two page original graphic novel written and illustrated by Martinbrough.How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling is an instructional book based on the cinematic high contrast noir style of acclaimed comic book and graphic novel illustrator Shawn Martinbrough.Martinbroughs work has been published by DC Comics Vertigo and Marvel Comics illustrating stories ranging from Batman to the X-Men. This is his first book released through Watson-Guptill Publications and The Nielsen Company.In How to Draw Noir Comics Martinbrough shows how the expert use of the color black is critical for drawing noir comics. He demonstrates how to set a mood design characters and locations stage action and enhance drama and discusses important topics like page layout panel design and cover design.How to Draw Noir Comics includes The Truce an original graphic novel written and illustrated by Martinbrough which incorporates the many lessons addressed throughout the book and has an introduction by critically-acclaimed novelist Greg Rucka author of the graphic novel Whiteout currently in production as a major motion picture.
language: English
title: How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling
publisher: Watson-Guptill