Laying out comics in Adobe InDesign

John Martz | August 12th, 2009

I have certainly used InDesign to package finished comics projects, but since it’s primarily a page layout tool, I have never seen it used for any sort of drawing. In this video Gareth Hinds shows how he uses InDesign’s vector pencil tool to do the rough sketching and layouts for his comic book adaptation of The Odyssey.

This is the first in a series of videos for which he plans to share the other steps in his comic-making process.

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  • garethhinds
    Thanks so much for linking to my video. Knowing that a bunch of artists are going to watch it, I felt I should add a little warning about using this method. It can create extremely large InDesign files, which can become difficult to work with. More details in the original post linked above (http://www.garethhinds.com/blog/?p=343)

    Thanks!
    Gareth Hinds
  • Yay for Gareth Hinds. I encourage readers of Drawn! to check out his "Beowulf" graphic novel. Awesome!
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