Are You Ready to Become a Comics Professional? Marvel and Proko Collaboration

Draftsmen

Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff

Visual Arts, Design, Arts

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this special SDCC panel, Stan is joined by Marvel artists and instructors from the course to share their personal journeys and offer advice for aspiring comic book artists. Learn what it takes to become a professional comic artist straight from the experts themselves. Find out how long it took them to get their break at Marvel, why they create comics, and get insider tips for getting a job in the industry. Signup for "Marvel's The Art of Storytelling" - proko.com/marvel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Stan Bricopenko here.
0:01.9	We had a panel at Sandyo Comic-Con for our new course,
0:05.6	Marvel's The Art of Storytelling, and that's over at Proko.com slash Marvel.
0:10.5	We pulled together a bunch of instructors from the course and talked about how to make comics.
0:16.1	They had plenty to say about what it takes to make comics for Marvel. So let's get to it.
0:21.4	Lo-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
0:26.4	It's dressing show.
0:29.4	Yeah.
0:30.4	Okay, hi.
0:32.1	My name is Stan Procopenko.
0:33.9	I am the founder of Proko.com.
0:36.8	We create online drawing courses and we try to make them fun
0:40.3	and approachable and try to make complicated things enjoyable. What we realized a while ago, a few years ago, is that, you know, when kids and young adults get excited or interested in drawing and learning how to draw,
0:56.2	it's usually because of comics or movies or just things that they grew up loving to watch and read.
1:03.9	And so we reached out to Marvel and said, yo, Marvel!
1:11.6	We should make a course. That's how you get a job at yo, Marvel. We should make a course.
1:13.6	That's how you get a job at Marvel guys.
1:15.6	Yo!
1:16.6	And then they responded and they said, yes.
1:19.6	It's called the art of storytelling because Marvel is all about telling stories.
1:25.6	Everything about learning how to create comics
1:28.3	always comes back to the story,
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