Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe
Final Tips
A course by Sam Hart , Comic Book and Storyboard Artist
About the video: Final Tips
Overview
“In this lesson, I want to show you some useful narrative tips to remember throughout your work. One is used constantly in the world of movies, and the other in illustration. ”
In this video lesson Sam Hart addresses the topic: Final Tips, 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
“Final Tips Here are some classic useful tips that I still use to this day, often, various times with each new project, the earlier you learn them, I guarantee you the better your work will be. The 180-degree rule is a grand rule of cinema and TV, and consists of the following. Imagine two characters face to face, an invisible line passing through them, extending to infinity on either side. Now imagine you are one side of this line. Let's take a look. At all times, if you stay on your side of the line, the character on the right will stay on the right, and the one on the left will stay on th...”
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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Sam Hart
A course by Sam Hart
Sam Hart is an Anglo-Brazilian comic book artist based in São Paulo. He fell in love with comic books at a young age and has been reading, drawing, and writing them ever since. He has drawn stories featuring characters such as Robin Hood and The Power Rangers and had one of the graphics novels he illustrated adapted into a film starring Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron.
Aside from creating comic books of his own, Sam regularly teaches illustration and comic book art and is passionate about helping others create their own realities through visual narratives.
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