Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective
Planning and Writing Stage: The Power of a Blank Page
A course by André Lima Araújo , Comic Book Creator
Joined June 2021
About the video: Planning and Writing Stage: The Power of a Blank Page
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn tips and tricks on how to transform a basic idea into a story.”
In this video lesson André Lima Araújo addresses the topic: Planning and Writing Stage: The Power of a Blank Page, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective. Develop meaningful characters and discover how perspective can help drive the narrative for compelling comic book sequences.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will learn a bit about planning and writing, and the power of the blank page. Let's say you want to make a story. What are you going to do? How will you do it? And That's the blank page. Okay. For a lot of people, that's very intimidating. but you can use certain things to make it less so. So for me, the blank page is really magical thing because anything can happen at that point so you can have the best story in the world Right there. You just need to make it. And the way that you can do to simplify that and to lessen the effect of Everything is possible. Which sometimes...”
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Course summary for: Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Clip Studio Paint -
Areas
Comic, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Storytelling

André Lima Araújo
A course by André Lima Araújo
André Lima Araújo is a comic book creator from Portugal. Growing up, he loved comics and was always creating stories and characters. He went on to architecture at the University of Minho and, after graduating, worked as an architect and illustrator before deciding to pursue his passion for comic books as a career.
Since then, André has written, drawn, and created original books including Man Plus, and worked with publishers like DC Comics, and Netflix. He has also worked for Marvel Comics on titles such as Fantastic Four, Avengers AI, Spider-Verse, Inhumans, Spidey, and Black Panther among others.
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