Storytelling for Comics: Explore Action and Perspective
Layouts 1
A course by André Lima Araújo , Comic Book Creator
Joined June 2021
About the video: Layouts 1
Overview
“Now that you have the narrative in mind, it's time to turn the script into pictures. ”
In this video lesson André Lima Araújo addresses the topic: Layouts 1, 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
“ Layouts In the previous lesson, we saw the first three pages already done. Let's see how we do one page from the get-go. We have page four. The first thing that I would do is how many panels we have. On page four, we have five panels. I usually do a quick, small sketch... of a page, and I start reading out and seeing what size the panels need to be and what needs to be bigger and what needs to be smaller. We have a profile shot on panel one, then a close-up, and then you see right here, it says four, but it's wrong, it should be three. It's a big panel. We know half the page. We already h...”
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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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