Drawn from a battlefield sketch by Alfred Waud.
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Vol. 3 Sample Pages & Sources: “We Start in 20 Minutes for the Front”
What if the primary source text doesn’t say…?
“Sleeping on Their Arms” / Winslow Homer @ The Wilderness
Drawn from a 2p spread in Harper’s (28 May 1864)
How a Civil War Battle-Sketch Gets Published (MINI)
From frontline sketchbook to front porch reading…
Primary Sources of Freeman Colby Vol. 3
Samples of the many sources I’m using to draw FREEMAN COLBY VOL. 3
Civil War Cartoonist Mini: “Artists to the Front!”
Featuring the Civil War battlefield artists whose work inspired Freeman Colby Vol. 3…
How to Create a (Historical Adventure) Graphic Novel
Super-quick tour of our sources & methods for Freeman Colby Vol. 3+!
“FICTION or NON-FICTION?” (2022)
Not exactly a definitive non-definition…
Charging @ Spottsylvania Court House (12 May 1864)
Inking a 2-page spread from VOLUME 3…
Marching in DC (Demo Page from FREEMAN COLBY VOL. 3)
How I build a page from Freeman Colby Vol. 3 using the SETTING + ACTION + RESULT layout …
“New Year’s Day, 1864”
Drawn from a sketch by Edwin Forbes (Jan. 1864).
Hospital Cat 2: Drawing Panels & Pages from Primary Sources
All those F.A.S.T. visual markups will really help us see the various parts of the story… So let’s draw!
