These simple visual tools & marks will help primary source texts COME TO LIFE on your comics page!
Category Archives: How to Draw Freeman Colby
Coloring Winslow Homer’s “Wilderness”
Drawing poster artwork from VOL. 3, based on a painting by Winslow Homer…
“Sarah Low: Civil War Volunteer” (8p Comics Report)
How to create a quick 8-page mini “comics report” drawn from primary sources!
How to Draw Freeman Colby #3: Nurse Sarah Low
Draw along as Marek builds a splash page of nurse Sarah Low!
How to Draw Freeman Colby #2: Enlisting (August 1862)
Draw along as the boys enlist in the 39th Mass. Volunteers!
How to Draw Freeman Colby #1: Stick Figure Soldier
History cartooning tips from VOL. 2!
Nurse Sarah Low / “Hospital Cat” (1863)
POSTER: Nurse Low writes in her log book while the hospital cat hunts hospital rats.
Drawing Freeman Colby Vol. 2: New Year’s Day, 1863
Guarding the Potomac w/ Freeman Colby & Jonas Bacon.
“Drawing Freeman” / Historical New Hampshire (Vol. 71 No. 1)
Full color cover article on drawing Stick Figure Civil War comics.
