Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
Researching
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: Researching
Overview
“Want to generate fantastic ideas? It's time to examine the power of research! In this lesson, I will guide you in gathering reference photos for the things you may need to draw. Then, you will seek out past solutions for the kind of problems you're trying to solve. I will show you how to let your mind wander and allow your intuition to guide you as a viewer, not just a maker.”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Researching, 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
“Researching We've looked at how to understand the problem and read a prompt. In this lesson, we'll look at research. The way I start every project is with research. My research generally consists of a lot of image searching. This project is a very open-ended assignment. The assignment is an image about automation, about turning human jobs into robot jobs, or replacing human labor with robot labor or AI. I'll start by typing in "automation" and seeing what comes up. To try to get a sense of what automation looks like, to get a sense of what images are associated with automation, right away I...”
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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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