Claire Scott

Adapting books to comics takes more writing chops than people realize, even if the artist doesn’t have to write the story from scratch.

If a comic is filled with prose narration that could’ve been drawn or dialogue that hasn’t been adjusted for comic pacing, it’s an illustrated novel, not a comic.

Comics aren’t a stepping stone to film or TV adaptation. Sequential art is a rich and varied medium that doesn’t get a fraction of the respect it deserves ESPECIALLY for the amount of labor that goes into it

Illustration of characters from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, in the style of an 1890s photograph. The text at the bottom reads “The Silver Six, Ketterdam, Kerch.”

Happy ten years of Six of Crows!

#Art #SixOfCrows #Grishaverse

Grayscale illustration of characters from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Version without the texturing

Illustration of characters from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, in the style of an 1890s photograph. The text at the bottom reads “The Silver Six, Ketterdam, Kerch.”

Happy ten years of Six of Crows!

#Art #SixOfCrows #Grishaverse

Inking illustration of characters from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Did some inking today :)

Illustration of characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

☀️ You and I are going to change the world ☀️

#ShadowAndBone #Art

THANK YOU!!! Add (Glow) mode ftw

Illustration of characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

☀️ You and I are going to change the world ☀️

#ShadowAndBone #Art

Chapter 4, page 1 from Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Chapter 4, page 2 from Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

Page 2 from Tokyo Runners

Page 3 from Tokyo Runners

Hello! I’m Claire Scott, a comic author-illustrator interested in working on stories for young adult and adult audiences. I am available for work!

You can find my portfolio here: clairescottart.wixsite.com/portfolio

🦇 HAPPY BATMAN DAY 🦇

Traditional art work-in-progress featuring the characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

inking wip complete after working on it on and off for the past month or so

can’t wait to color!

YouTube video by Helioscope PDX Meet some professional cartoonists!

New YouTube short! Meet some of the artists at Helioscope: @jcscottart.bsky.social, @jeffparker.bsky.social, @emmetthgraham.bsky.social, Gordon Graham, and @colleencoover.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/shorts/zM4NA...

i am so tired of the tasks. i want to make the comics

Work in progress traditionally inked piece of The Darkling from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

inking wip I’ve been working at for far too long (working on setting up my studio!)

Try to figure out how a scene could work with no dialogue, and then taking breaks, imagine it a couple more times until you get to the most interesting way to show it play out. Now you're telling the story visually. Reward yourself with the possibility of some dialogue

somebody emailed me to ask for tips on finding style, so i'm gonna share my thoughts here, too: first of all, don't worry about what you're good at it, or what you want your art to look like. figure out what's fun about the /process/ for you and lean into those elements!

one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen

Comic panel of Jesper Fahey kissing his pistol, the SFX reading “SMOOCH!” with hearts in the Os.

Line art of a panel I drew from The Fix. A modest duplex in Sherman oaks, CA. Over it we see, in huge letters FAPFAPFAP. This was well received both at my studio, helioscope, and in Sherman Oaks.

Panel in progress screenshot from an an issue of Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Beetle is texting, and the sfx is TXT TXT TXT TXT TXT

Comic folks: Share a favorite dumb sfx gag you came up with.

Working on an OGN pitch rn (on my third drafting pass), and it feels so good to get past a plot that feels very very derivative of my favorite books to something that’s unique enough to have my voice in it, all without changing the characters or genre

Thank you!!! :)

Illustration of Sturmhond from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Scourge of the Seas 🌊

#ShadowAndBone #Art

Somehow, they exist! Under ten colleges offer it in the US, I think

can’t wait to start covering more floor with a new project soon!

Illustration of Sturmhond from the King of Scars duology by Leigh Bardugo

King of Scars era version

#ShadowAndBone #Art

Illustration of Sturmhond from the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

Scourge of the Seas 🌊

#ShadowAndBone #Art

Sketches of Nikolai, Vasily, Sturmhond, Alina, Mal, and the Darkling from Shadow and Bone

Sketches of Zoya, Genya, David, Tamar, Tolya, and Baghra from Shadow and Bone

currently reading the shadow and bone trilogy, halfway through ruin and rising 🔥

#ShadowAndBone #Art

Sketch of Wylan, Nina, and Matthias from Six of Crows in modern clothing.

More modern-day doodles

#SixofCrows

From left to right:
Augustine Yao, hotel manager and art thief extraordinaire
June Flores, fresh-out-of-grad-school art forger
Émile Despereaux, hotshot apprentice art thief
Jamie, self-made technology genius
Erin Hall, people-pleasing heist scout
Robert Geier, nothing-but-nasty hotel owner