Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
9 Tricks to Telling a Story in One Image
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: 9 Tricks to Telling a Story in One Image
Overview
“Broadly speaking, the key to clear communication is to assume that the writer knows everything and the reader knows nothing. In this lesson, I will share nine concrete tricks to telling a complete story in a single image. ”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: 9 Tricks to Telling a Story in One Image, 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
“9 Tricks to Telling a Story in One Image Now that you've seen some of my influences, in this lesson, I'll talk about nine concrete tips to tell an entire story in a single image. Facing Your Characters Towards Each Other One, face your characters toward each other. Stories are verbs. You can see in this image, this was a project for a magazine cover about a robotics instructor. You can see it's a single character surrounded by her robots and she's looking out at the viewer. There are things happening, but it's not exactly a narrative. Compare that to the next image here. You see it's anothe...”
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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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