Narrative Illustration: Tell a Story without Words

Overview

“You will develop a narrative project in silence under the short sequence format illustrated in a six-part fold-out. I will teach you how to do it step by step, from imaginative stimulation, hand fluency, the importance of reading and visual narration and the importance of its structure. The thematic conception and the conceptual approach, the triggers, the sketching process and its technical approaches, to close with the final production and its finishes, all explained and exemplified with a project that I will develop from the beginning, and to which I will return at any time and that I will conclude with the gouache technique.”

In this video lesson Enrique Torralba addresses the topic: What Will We Do In This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Illustration: Tell a Story without Words. Discover the power of visual narratives by creating images filled with meaning and detail.

Partial transcription of the video

“WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IN THIS COURSE? The project we’ll work on is a fold-out illustration, a short sequence, a wordless narrative. Here's an example of what we’re going to make. In this example, we have five illustrations. The project I’ll work on as an example has six illustrations, but, when you start working on it, you can decide whether to do three, five, or six illustrations. The important thing is to make it the same size. I do want you to follow, at least for part of the project, for instance, for the sketch, a more or less similar structure. I suggest you make your project six pa...”

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Course summary for: Narrative Illustration: Tell a Story without Words

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (218)
• 4808 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 31m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Picturebook, Storytelling, Traditional illustration