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.
| Films | Dark angles shadowy high contrast images moody lighting an antihero that struggles with moral conflictsall these elements work to create a somber dark tone |
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Watson-guptill Publications How to draw noir comics - the art and technique of visual storytelling | shawn martinbrough
