똥손도 바로 시작하는 인스타툰 그리기Instatoons Anyone Can Start Drawing, Even with Clumsy Hands

This review was written as part of Hanbit Media’s “I Am a Reviewer” program, which provided me with the book.

About the Book

• Title : Saenagom's Instatoons Anyone Can Start Drawing, Even with Clumsy Hands (똥손도 바로 시작하는 인스타툰 그리기)
• Author : Saenagom (Jung Eun-ah)
• Publisher : Hanbit Media
• For : Anyone who wants to try drawing Instatoons
• In one line :
  What you need to know about Instatoons matters more than how to draw them

Why Would a Developer Make Instatoons?

To be honest, these days I often find myself wondering, while writing blog posts, whether any of this still matters. In an age when AI can churn out writing in no time, text-based information is getting harder and harder to set apart. The way people take in information is changing, too. We now live in a time when people respond to short, visual content more than to long reads.

So I started thinking: I should try many different forms of content. Among them, the Instatoon — a comic made for Instagram — caught my eye. It tells a story through images and leaves a short but memorable message, which made me think it’s the content format best suited to our times.

A developer making Instatoons? I thought the same at first. But I became convinced that the ability to create content itself will be the most important skill going forward, and learning how to do that is why I picked up this book.

What Matters More Than Drawing

What surprised me most while reading this book is that how to draw isn’t the core of the book. It does cover how to draw on an iPad, of course, but that’s strictly supplementary.

What the author really wanted to convey was how to run an Instatoon channel.

• Defining the channel concept : What character, what topics, and who you’re talking to
• Planning content : How to keep things interesting while staying consistent
• Growing followers : Strategies for understanding the algorithm and boosting exposure
• Monetization : How to move on to the next stage once your followers add up

Reading the book, I got the impression that the author thinks very strategically. It felt like a book written not just by someone who draws well, but by someone who understands the content business.

> You can learn how to run an Instatoon channel strategically

AI Can Cover the Drawing

The book also kindly explains how to draw. Hmm… but I’m a developer. Naturally, drawing things myself is hard. So I decided to use AI to make my Instatoons.

> It also kindly teaches you how to draw

I’ll Just Draw It with AI

With AI, you can start making Instatoons without any drawing skills. Create characters with an image-generation AI, lay out the panels, polish the text, and you’ve got content that’s all your own. I actually tried making an Instatoon with AI myself, and it came out far more convincing than I expected.

> An Instatoon I made myself with AI

Content Creators Will Survive

They say no job’s future is guaranteed in the age of AI. That’s true. But I believe that people who create content will be among the last ones standing.

Writing, drawing, video — whatever the format, people who can tell their own stories in an engaging way are the strongest. That’s because people go wild for stories. And if you can add visual expression on top, all the better.

This book guides you to that starting point through the Instatoon format. You don’t need drawing skills. What matters is what story you tell and how you tell it, and this book shows you how, in a friendly way.

Final Thoughts

If you’re interested in Instatoons as a content format, you’ll find this is not just a drawing book but a strategy guide to running content. I learned that planning comes before drawing skill, and that with AI, it’s entirely doable.

It even made me — a developer — think I could start making Instatoons!

Recommended For

• Anyone who wants to start Instatoons but hesitates because they can’t draw
• Anyone who wants to build a channel through a new form of content
• Anyone interested in content planning and social media strategy

References

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