This is a workshop I gave for the Sydney Comics Guild in February 2017, and I finally am putting it online. Before I go into the meaty bits, I have to clarify what this workshop covers and doesn’t cover:
World-building is the process of constructing a reasonably believable fictional place or universe. This most commonly happens in the fantasy and sci-fi genres, but the truth is, creating a reasonably believable time and place is necessary for any kind of fiction.
The goal here is not to draw something generic-looking, but something specific-looking. Drawing generic-looking backgrounds is a basic skill in comics, but drawing something specific-looking requires vision and a unique visual style that could be attributed, at a glance, to a particular writer/artist or a particular story.
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” is a 3-book series I did in 2004-2007. It’s a horror story set in our world, and located entirely within a Victorian-era inspired school, with lots of dark wood panels, cluttered wallpaper, etc. As such, It’s a
Readers remember this series mostly for how the school looks, and this is what you want to aim for when you create the visual design of a world. In this case, it’s not to draw a generic school, but a specific one that becomes a character within the story as well.
A second example is my other series “Fabled Kingdom” (see picture below). As you can see, this looks very different to “
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When creating a fantasy location like a castle or a city, it’s a good idea to consider things like landscapes and mountains. That’s because to sustain life, you must have water, and also if you have plumbing, the slope of the land matters.
This seems like a minor issue that few people consider, but unlike the outlandishly fantastical lands depicted in fantasy/sci-fi posters or book covers, a comic book artist must create spaces that are 3-dimensional and lived in. This is because you have to visually depict your characters moving in and interacting with that space at all times, so it’s best to always think of space in a 3-dimensional way when creating any buildings. It may be difficult to do at first, but it will become easier as you change the way you think. For this same reason, the layout of the building also has to make sense.
To expand the scope a bit more, when creating the a castle or city, it’s a good idea to consider the skyline. Skylines that are striking can help differentiate different cities/castles from one another – for example, the skyline of Castle Roserock (see above) is one rectangle with five spires, with the middle one being the highest. You can integrate the history of the world and building into the skyline and floorplan of your buildings, which can be inspiring for writer-artists.
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Style of architecture and only modify it slightly. This is lazy, but if it’s not well-thought out before one start creating, it’s easy to paint yourself into a corner because you’ve exhausted all your ideas for just the one civilisation and now can’t find the inspiration to do another, constrasting civilisation. One way to avoid this is to plan ahead, and conceive of each civilisation as collection of polygonal shapes. You can also use real life or history for inspiration.
You can see this in the examples above: Summerstone is inspired by Ancient Eygpt, and so uses a lot of trapeziums, triangles, and circles. Meanwhile, Fallinor (the western-style fantasy castle) uses mostly rectangles, triangles, and ovals. Motifs are also important, and a good way to differentiate between different civilisations. For example, being sun worshippers, there are sun motifs everywhere in Summerstone, including on the clothing of its people, whereas Fallinor has more flower/tree motifs.
The popular manga “One Piece” is an example of utilising the “shapes” idea in its skylines. You can see here, that while the
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Used makes each location immediately and recognisably different. Once you’ve nailed the shapes, the small details can be fine-tuned to enhance differences.
” uses a lot of real-life civilisations for inspiration as well, which is a great help, and good fun for the readers. Even when they don’t use real-life inspiration, the shapes used in all the background designs are distinct, and therefore strong and memorable. “One Piece’s” unique art style makes everything look even more distinctive.
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Manga is, for many of us, an escape from reality. And what better place to run off to than a place of wonder? (and despair sometimes, I guess)
No matter their setting or level of realism, these series and their creators prove how much of the story can come through lore and worldbuilding.
While being somewhat regular, the Tokyo-like setting adds to the modern atmosphere and manages to humanize the citizens, whose protection is quite literally the objective of the manga.
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I mean, the series is set in alternate 1800s Japan with aliens and samurai, with a tense political situation that makes people’s lives a little hard sometimes.
And in the middle of that is Gin, an eccentric dude who runs around with a wooden sword, completing odd jobs for money.
Despite his frail appearance, the boy is extremely strong. Mostly thanks to his mythical tools, a flying carpet, and a magical flute through which he summons his djinn.
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Along with his friends, Aladdin takes immense pleasure in exploring the land that stretches out in front of him – from the hot sands of the desert, to wonderful oases.
Whenever our characters feel like they’ve found everything, a new tomb uncovers under their feet, or another treasure begs to be retrieved. It’s always an adventure.
What starts off with a simple village with a couple of weirdos doesn’t take long before expanding beyond our imagination in Masashi Kishimoto’s
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As the chapters go by, our protagonists are taken on adventures throughout the continent, learning its history and many conflicts with the reader.
When it’s not about blasting enemies through mountains with rasengans, this series has everything that makes for a fascinating world: from politics to spirituality.
Revolves around a group of children whose existence, so far, has been restricted to an orphanage on a beautiful little plot of land.
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As it turns out, the rest of the world isn’t as nice – and it happens to be run by a complex hierarchy of flesh-hungry aristocratic monsters.
Horrified after learning of their nature, the kids (led by Emma, Norman, and Ray) escape from their captors and leave on a quest towards revolution.
Gon Freecss is a 12-year-old kid whose goal in life is to become a “hunter, ” an official job that grants a ton of advantages throughout the globe.
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Of course, not every square mile of it is explored. But just the thought is enough to give Yoshihiro Togashi’s series an air of grandeur you don’t get too often.
I’d be willing to bet that very few series can make you wish you were living in a fantasy world more than
Dreamed of joining a guild and having a good time here? Especially with this world’s numerous friendly faces, all ready to gon out on ton of dangerous (but not too dangerous) quests.
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With compelling lore and endless mystery pulled from the country’s intriguing and bloody history, you’ll constantly find yourself wanting to delve deeper.
And the beautiful thing is how all the ridiculously complex and in-depth ideas blend together perfectly to make for a coherent and engaging world.
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