Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
Think in vignettes
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
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
“In this lesson. i aim to teach you to think in panels. Imagine the comic as a series of windows opening to another world. with each window representing a panel. However. be cautious. as your windows are limited. and Sometimes it's very useful to write your ideas and dialogues first. And I want to propose that to achieve this. we use the narrative pyramid. The term was introduced by a writer named Gustav Freymann. who was a novelist. and it divides dramatic works into five steps that form a pyramid. Is there an exposition to a problem? that rises to a rising action or an increase in tension ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
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Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling
Akimaro
A course by Akimaro
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.
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