How to Use Pixton: Online Comic Strips

 As someone who is a huge supporter of the use of comic books and graphic novels, it felt very fitting to become an expert on using Pixton: Online Comic Strips!

Step 1: Go to website

Once you click the link above, you will end up on the home page of the website. You will then click the "Sign Up" button in the top right corner.

Step 2: Sign up!

Your next step will be to create an account as a student or teacher. I decided to make a teacher account first to see what the educator platform would look like!

Step 3: Create a Student, Teacher, or Parent account

Once you make your account, you will end up on this page. Here you have several options:

- Comic Maker

- Avatar Maker

- Classrooms

- Staff Photos

- Content Packs

Step 4: Making an Avatar

I decided that I would make an avatar first! You will be able to customize your own avatar here- first picking a gender (female, male, non-binary), then a body shape, a skin tone, hairstyle, eye-shape, eye-color- eye-brows, a nose, glasses, earrings, details, lip-color, eye-shadow, headwear, an expression, wheel-chair, hearing aid, outfit, height, and finally, a pose. Once you are finished customizing your avatar, you will click the. "done" button on the right.

Step 5: Create a Comic

Now that you have created your avatar, you can choose to create a comic. You can either get started right away if you know what you want to do, or click the option "Need an Idea?" which will take you to other comics for inspiration

Once you click "Create Comic" you will be taken to this page, where you have a plethora of options to choose from to create your comic! **It is important to note that your avatar is not a character, so they will not appear under the characters tab. But, you can create and customize other characters under that tab!

Step 6: Name your comic

Once you finish adding panels, characters, and adventures, you can click 'Done" in the top left corner. This will prompt you to name your comic if you have not done so already

You will then be brought to a screen where you can view your masterpiece! On that screen there will be a red arrow in the left corner. Click that and you will be brought back to the same page as step 5.

Step 7: Interactive Rubric

If you notice in the top right of the image from step 5, there is an interactive rubric. This rubric allows you to rate different aspects of your comment on a scale of "Oops" to "Mint"!

Step 8: Explore!

Now that you have learned the basic features of Pixton, you can explore as much or as little as you like!