Narrative Illustration: Tell a Story without Words

Overview

“It is time to add substance to the narrative, and raise the level of the discourse, nurture it with visual metaphors and take it to another level of coding. I'm prompting you to build reading levels with sophisticated narrative encoding, which will be discovered as well-kept treasures at different stages of reading.”

In this video lesson Enrique Torralba addresses the topic: The Potentiated Narrative: How to Hide the Treasure?, 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

“ENHANCING THE NARRATIVE: HOW TO HIDE THE TREASURE Now it's time for one of the lessons that, for me, are the most fun, and it’s because it’s about devices, and I mean narrative devices. That means that, this type of element, these kinds of options for enhancing the narrative are devices that, when we make the most of them and use them right, are going to enhance the narrative value of the story. Here I have four examples which are just four of many options within the rhetoric of the image. This is used to create visual metaphors that convey a very special quality on what you’re illustrating...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 4808 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 31m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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