Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

Overview

“Now I will show you some more complex narrative elements of sequential art. Some are formed by previous concepts grouped together, such as having many panels in a sequence, and some are intrinsic to the physical nature of the medium.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Sequential Narrative, 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

“Sequential Narrative Now we've defined each visual element, I'm going to point out some fundamental ways in which the comic book page conducts the reader from left to right without the reader even noticing that they are being led by the eye. In this lesson, I'll be using some pages from "Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur", a graphic novel I illustrated, written by Tony Lee, published by Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick Press in the United States. When we look at the comic book page, we are confronted with many illustrations on a page. Different to an animation, a cartoon, a cover, a...”

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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