Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
Understanding the Problem
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: Understanding the Problem
Overview
“In this lesson, I will dive into the details of the course project and explain how to interpret a creative brief.”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Understanding the Problem, 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
“ Understanding the problem Now, we've gone over some concrete tips you can use to tell your own story, in this lesson, we'll look at a brief, understanding the problem, and eventually looking at what you'll do for your final project. For your final project, you'll be creating a single image that tells an entire story. It will be on a theme and in a format of your choosing. For my project, I'll be using the theme of automation, that's robots and AI taking human jobs, replacing human workers, and I'll format it for a magazine. I'll have to take into consideration all the graphic design and e...”
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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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