Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
Sketching 1
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: Sketching 1
Overview
“Once you feel you have a solid base to work from, to move the ideation process forward the next step is to start sketching. I will teach you how to use sketching as a way to generate narrative and compositional ideas.”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Sketching 1, 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
“ Sketching Now that we've gone over the research, in this lesson, I'll show you how I start sketching. Now that I've done my research and got my creative juices flowing, what I like to do next is write a few of my ideas down and try to sum up the entire story in one sentence. The story that I kept coming back to was a human panhandler on the street given cash by a crowd of robots passing by. That is funny. It's an open-ended project about automation, about robots taking human jobs. That seems to tell the story in a funny way. Another visual gag, a silly idea that I had, was a boardroom of ...”
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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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