Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

Overview

“In this lesson, I will make some last important considerations about the pages while still in pencil form that will help the story flow.”

In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Real Estate of the 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

“Real Estate of the Page I used to love going into old bookstores in central London, and they had old newspaper pages for sale, often with wonderful line illustrations. I have a theory, completely unchecked, but true to my mind just the same, that the phrase "an image is worth a thousand words" came from this era of journalism, when literally the editor had to choose between printing an image or a thousand words. Let me show you some examples. A wonderful line illustration, or just about a thousand words. The same here on the cover, another wonderful illustration, and about a thousand words....”

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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