Dynamic Comic Covers with Shawn Crystal
3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast
SVSlearn.com
4.8 • 835 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Shawn joins us on this episode to discuss comic covers, how to do them well, and the art and thinking behind a great cover.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's face it, the most important aspect of selling your comic book is the cover. |
| 0:07.0 | If you'd like to learn how to make stronger covers, join me on my dynamic comic cover workshop at SVS. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll be teaching you the elements that make a dynamic comic cover, concept, composition, |
| 0:24.7 | image, value, hue, and how to combine all those elements to create a striking comic book |
| 0:32.9 | cover that helps your sales go through the roof. |
| 0:36.4 | Join me on July 11th for the Dynamic Comic Cover Workshop. |
| 0:41.9 | Head over to SVSlearn.com and sign up now. |
| 0:50.8 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. I'm Anthony Wheeler. And you are Sean Crystal. Okay, good. |
| 1:05.0 | We didn't plan that ahead of town. We didn't give you any cue of where you're supposed to go. |
| 1:09.0 | None whatsoever. I'm good on my feet. I'm good on my feet. He's good on his feet. Welcome to the show, Sean Crystal. Now, if you are a member of SVS, you're no stranger to Sean because he is my co-teacher for Graphic Nol the Pro. He's been on the podcast before. I've been on his podcast before. |
| 1:32.2 | And, you know, he's just all around good artist guy. |
| 1:35.7 | But if you are a stranger, tell us a little bit about yourself, Sean. |
| 1:36.6 | All right. |
| 1:38.3 | So I'm Sean Crystal. |
| 1:45.1 | I am, well, I created and am now a member of the Ink Pulp team. |
| 1:50.6 | It's me, Eric Kennedy, Mateo Scalera, Jim Moffood, and our producer, Jamie Wood. |
| 1:59.7 | We have two different shows we do on the Ink Pulp channel on YouTube, the Ink Pulp Podcast, and Ink Pulp Live, and that's my website. |
| 2:01.8 | I have a background in teaching. |
| 2:07.0 | I built the sequential art department at Scat, Atlanta, with my good friend Pat Quinn, |
| 2:13.6 | and I ran that department and taught most, I 90% of the classes in it for about 10 years while I was working for Marvel Comics, and then left to do comics full time and miss |
| 2:19.1 | teaching and got back with my ink pulp instruction which caught the eye of Jake and now we have |
| 2:25.1 | the most amazing comics class together. Yes. And recently tattooing as well. Yeah. Yeah. And such a |
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