Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

Overview

“In the plastic arts when it came to composing, it seemed to me something very boring, schematic, but researching I discovered that it could be like a film director preparing a great scene. Here I will teach you how to sharpen the composition to surprise the reader. ”

In this video lesson Gerald Espinoza addresses the topic: Composition as another way of telling, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks. Develop a storyboard and explore different and unconventional techniques to tell stories full of emotion.

Partial transcription of the video

“Composition as another way of telling In this lesson we will sharpen the composition to surprise the reader. Composition helps us make our scenes interesting, to give interest to the story, for the reader to spend more time looking at our characters, looking at what happens in our history. It is important to create a focus so that our reader can stay longer, so you can review multiple pages and be surprised with our images. We will learn to balance the elements within the composition and I'll show you an example. The composition works like a play. There is a main character, a secondary char...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (32)
• 597 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 54m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Storyboard