Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives
Plotting Out the Story
A course by Reilly Brown , Comic Book Artist
About the video: Plotting Out the Story
Overview
“Let's look at some different approaches to planning a story, whether a fully written script or just a rough plot breakdown, and figure out what the comic is going to be about.”
In this video lesson Reilly Brown addresses the topic: Plotting Out the Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives. Transform your written narratives into comics using the art of visual storytelling and character-building techniques..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Plotting Out the Story In the last lesson, we discussed character design. In this lesson, we'll cover how to plot out a story. Any comic needs a story, even if it's a short story like ours, so we know what we're drawing. Even if a comic page is a small part of a large narrative, you should aim to make it a complete unit of the narrative. You want the page to tell a story all by itself, the beginning, middle, and end, or however you want to think about it, a thesis and a conclusion, a setup and a punch line, whatever. A page on its own should be a story within the story. You can write a st...”
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Course summary for: Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Reilly Brown
A course by Reilly Brown
Reilly Brown is a comic book artist based in New Jersey, United States. A superfan of comics since childhood, he started self-publishing his own work in 2002. His career took off after that, collaborating with publishers like Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Archie, and Tantor Media on recognizable titles such as Deadpool, Spider-Man, Incredible Hercules and Lobo, and Batman. He’s known for his pioneering work with digital comics, having worked with Comixology to launch his creator-owned series Powerplay on mobile devices. He’s an active part of the comic world, making frequent appearances at conventions and comic book stores.
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