Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
Body language
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Body language
Overview
“Comics tell a story, and to tell it well you need movement. In this lesson I will show you how to achieve dynamic poses.”
In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: Body language, 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
“Body language A story is articulated through actions. Without an action our characters they become static and will not communicate well. In this lesson I want to show you how to capture the illusion of movement with body language. Not only is it enough to know the structure of the human body, to communicate you have to put it in motion. Postures and gestures, even without dialogue, give us a lot of information about personality, attitudes and emotions. It is on the face that certain emotions can be most easily identified. Always part of the six basics: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and...”
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Course summary for: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
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Category
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Areas
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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