Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

Overview

“I will now teach you the names and explain basic concepts of everything we can see on a page when we open a comic book. ”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Elements of a Comic Book Page, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe. Learn to create your own fictional world through visual storytelling.

Partial transcription of the video

“Elements of a Comic Book Page Now let's look at the basic elements of a comic book page that we can see as soon as we open any comic book or graphic novel. These will be our basic building blocks for narrative, much like letters and words are the building blocks for prose and poetry. For this lesson, I'll be using pages from a graphic novel I illustrated called "Pirate Queen: The Legend of Grace O'Malley". It was written by Tony Lee and published in the UK by Walker Books and in the United States by Candlewick Press. Let's have a look at the page. The page is everything you can see up to th...”

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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (162)
• 5122 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 59m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration