Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations
Sketching 2
A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist
About the video: Sketching 2
Overview
“In the first part of this lesson, I walked you through my four sketch ideas and sent them to the editor for review. Now, I will develop her preferred sketch: the panhandler. You will see how I slowly refine the sketch over many iterations. ”
In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Sketching 2, 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 I showed the sketches to the editor and she likes this one. She likes the full story it tells, it sounded like the story was coming through. We're ready to keep working on this, look for the big shapes, and start the process of slowly refining the sketches over these series of many iterations. As they say, writing is rewriting. We're writing the story with pictures and that will involve a lot of slow iterative drafts. The way that I'd go about starting to build this up is I look at it and I think like... I try to make every decision based on the narrative. As I zoom in here, I a...”
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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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