Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
About Me
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To get started, let me introduce myself! Here is a look into my artistic practice, how I broke into the industry, and a few mistakes I've made in my career along the way.”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations. Learn how to tell a complete story in a single image by exploring narrative illustration and drawing exercises in the style and medium of choice.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hi, I'm R. Kikuo Johnson. I'm an illustrator and cartoonist originally from Maui, Hawaii, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. I like to use both those titles, illustrator and cartoonist, because they represent two different sides of what I do for my career. I do illustrations for magazines, books, and newspapers, and I also write and draw my own graphic novels, like my latest book, "No One Else." In both fields though, the goal is fundamentally the same, to tell stories with pictures. When I was a kid, I fell in love with drawing because I loved to use my imagination and tell storie...”
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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
R. Kikuo Johnson
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson
R Kikuo Johnson is a cartoonist and illustrator from Hawaii. He fell in love with drawing at a young age as a way to tell stories and went on to study illustration at art school where he started his first graphic novel, Night Fisher. After graduating, he published a second novel and landed his first major illustration job—a two-page illustration in The New Yorker.
Since then, Kikuo has collaborated with clients including Airbnb, The Atlantic, Coca-Cola, The Guggenheim Foundation, Marvel Comics, The New York Times, Newsweek, Nike, Puma, and Penguin Random House. His illustrations have earned two gold medals from the Society Of Illustrators, and his most recent graphic novella, No One Else, won the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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