Panel Design and Visual Storytelling for Comics
Thumbnails
A course by Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez , Artist
About the video: Thumbnails
Overview
“First, you will learn to develop your ideas in thumbnails and explore possible ways to tell your story. We will use our ideas in rough form and start writing with pictures. It's the process of creating thumbnails to visualize the possible solutions you can think of for your comics.”
In this video lesson Charles Glaubitz Gonzalez addresses the topic: Thumbnails, 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
“Thumbnails Working on the page from thumbnails to finished pencils. In my process, sketchbooks serve the most important role of creating comics. As of 2022, I have 33 sketchbooks that I started recording all my ideas, all my concepts, all my experiences since 2001. So I have 21 years of ideas accumulated in my sketchbooks. In the sketchbooks I utilize to put down any and all ideas that come to mind. May those be in written form, as we see here in these first pages, where the story idea came in in words, in text, as a story, as I begin to write down what comes to mind before I forget. And th...”
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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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