Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics
Choosing the Moment
A course by Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez , Artist
About the video: Choosing the Moment
Overview
“Now that you have some basic understanding of the components and techniques of visual storytelling, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of getting our hands dirty and the pencil to the paper. In this lesson, I will show you how to choose the right moment to work on, so that the reader is able to clearly follow the story. ”
In this video lesson Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez addresses the topic: Choosing the Moment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics. Learn to develop your ideas in a sketchbook by creating a series of sequential drawings with pencil and ink that tell a story without words.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choosing the Moment I believe that a personal way of visual storytelling can emerge from the choices we make of the moments we choose to use to tell our story. We go fast and use a minimal panel approach or a 16 panel grid. The choices we make and the moments we choose to show visually, and it's a way how visual storytelling emerges from these panel moments. Scott McCloud in Making Comics lists these moments in comic storytelling. Moment to moment, action to action, subject to subject, scene to scene, aspect to aspect. Let's take a look at these comic pages to see what panel moments I chose...”
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Course summary for: Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez
A course by Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez
Charles Glaubitz has always been a fan of comics. When he was a child, he recalls reading the Mexican translation of the comic "Sagrado Corazón", which awoke his life-long passion for the craft. In 2013, he created his first comic zine "The Crystal Sigil", which became the first of many.
His work has been recognized by American Illustration, Communication Arts, How Magazine, Print Magazine. Charles’s artwork has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Juxtapoz Illustration 2 Book, The Upset Gestalen, Pictoplasma. His comic work has been acclaimed by American Best Comics 2012. His artwork has also been exhibited at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Oceanside Museum of Contemporary Art, Museo Carrillo Gil México City, Museo de Arte Zapopan.
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