MY BEST ADVICE about Drawing, Creativity, & Making Comics

All of my books are available through your local bookstore-- Ask them to special order if they don't have my books on the shelf. Thanks for your support!! ~Mark

All music created in GarageBand

[skylorcharge]

I can’t believe I found your channel again it’s been so long. If it wasn’t for your video on how to draw a dragon from ten years ago, I wouldn’t be pursuing a graphic novel career today. I was around ten or eleven at the time, and now I’m a college student. Time flies fast doesn’t it? I just wanted to say, if it wasn’t for you I probably would’ve never started taking art seriously. Now I’m making my own comic series! So I just wanted to say thank you for that. You inspired me to be the person I am today.

[mushroomdude]

I've been following you for so many years now, and I just wanted you to know that your advice has always been helpful and motivating. Thanks for what you do.

[mhbeen]

Took a break from art, but seeing you work made me feel inspired again. Thank you.

[LilleyComix]

Just what I need when I'm at my lowest creative point EVER in my life! Thank you for all the great years of tutorials! I got my start watching your tutorials on Activity TV on demand on Comcast! The. I discovered your YouTube not long after!

[mkay]

Finally got the first Mastering Manga after wanting it since it dropped!! Very happy to finally have it as I feel my creativity has been zapped out of me for years now. I'm even happier to see you're still making videos!

[chubbycatfish]

I've been working on making my own graphic novel length comic and I certainly will make use of all the advice you've given!

[KaliTakumi]

These posts were a real joy to see on my feed!

[natez]

To add to the title tip, don't just google it once. I've been on a project for three years and I google my title once every few months and sure enough, three years in someone took my title. Granted it was partially my fault and used a common sports phrase for the title : / And don't just search the title but use key words like comic/manga/graphicnovel after it.

[MrGamerTH]

I have nice memories from drawing class in high school 10 years ago learning from you, very nostalgic

[EpicoMarko]

I'm really happy to see you're still active, you helped me so much when I was starting out with art, without you I wouldn't be where I am today

[juststutter]

Gonna watch this when I don't have to sleep, I accidently became a comic artist and it's awesome! (Looking back it's what I've always wanted)

[RedGallardo]

The "name game" gets quite irritating these days. It's impossible to pick a good name for anything that hasn't been used yet. Even mathematically, 26 letters can be combined in a 5 letter word about 11 million ways. Most wouldn't make sense like but it should be clear that if there's 11 million artists in the world and each picks one letter combo there won't be anything left. Wanna call your character Jane? It exists. Joane? Yep. Jene? Used. Jiona? Registered. Juja? TMed. Jsop? Now that's fresh, only used 8 times the past 2 years. Call your main character Jsop... if you dare. Not to mention, there are people trying to make a living by registering every word out there to make anyone trying to use it pay. What I mean is, googling would be quite upsetting. It gave me 488k results for "jsop" by the way. Neat, huh? Gotta call your character 40 ampersands to be unique, I dunno.

[Jajsjzh]

Man since I’m a child I watch your videos. You always inspired me since I’m a little kid and finally I’m making a fan comic, my visual novel and mini movies that can make me progress day by day THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING❤HA❤❤❤btw your tuto book is amazing🎉! thx you

[kinowoah]

You were a great help back when I started to advance my art back in school, now I’m coming back to your channel to fill up on advice for a comic. Epic

[aaronfry]

I'm 23 now but when I was about 9 years old I found a drawing tutorial of yours on tv using on demand and followed along with the video, it got me into art. Some few years later I found you on YouTube and every once in while I come to the channel to see what's new and I'm glad you're still making videos!

[booster-b]

Man you have been my inspiration since I went to grade school. 12 years later and you are still going strong!

[authorofthyme]

watching 2:54 as someone who named their comic Once up on a Time (๏ᆺ๏υ)
upon is spelled as up on tho that makes it unique, , , , totally.

[captainghoul]

Looked you up again to listen while I work on my own comic. Thanks for the all the videos that helped me get here! <3

[May-vfjh]

I remember watching u when I was 12 now I'm 18 and I still love your vids😂

[mosiahatwood]

Thanks for the Great advice! I had the opportunity to help work on an instruction book at my work and the "gap" in the book was very important to understand just like you were saying. I look forward to getting these pieces of advice all together.