Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch

Think in vignettes

A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator

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2,333 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: Think in vignettes

Overview

“How do you imagine your comic? It's time to show you how to think about anecdotes in steps, and then turn them into vignettes. At the end, I will explain how to choose the right anecdote to illustrate. ”

In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: Think in vignettes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch. Come up with a story based on your own personal experience and create a comic ready to share on social media using storytelling techniques and vignettes.

Partial transcription of the video

“think in vignettes In this lesson I want to teach you to think in panels. I would like you to see the comic like opening windows to another world and each of those windows is a pane, but beware, because your windows are limited. Sometimes it is very useful to write down your ideas and dialogue first. And I want to propose that, to achieve this, we use the narrative pyramid. This concept was coined by a novelist, Gustav Friedman and divides the dramatic works into five steps that form a pyramid. There is exposure to a problem, that rises to a rising action or a rise in tension in your plot. ...”

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Course summary for: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (46)
2333 students
4 units
12 lessons (1h 22m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling

Akimaro

A course by Akimaro

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Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Adriana De la Torre, also known as Akimaro, is a designer by profession and an illustrator by trade. Combining these two arts, she has devoted herself to helping clients find their voice and telling stories through images. Since she was 16, Adriana has been publishing comics independently and is the co-author of the webcomic Parellet, published since 2012 and with two volumes in print.
Recently, she has worked with publishers like Penguin Random House to create illustrations for a teenage demographic. She loves to experiment and combines her experience in graphic design with her interest in modern Japanese culture.