Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations

Single-Image Storytelling: Comics and Graphic Novels

A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist

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1,714 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Single-Image Storytelling: Comics and Graphic Novels

Overview

“In this lesson, I will talk about how the techniques we've explored in this course can be applied to my other field of expertise: Comics. ”

In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Single-Image Storytelling: Comics and Graphic Novels, 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

“ Single-Image Storytelling Comics and Graphic Novels We've added our final color and we've prepared the final image for press. It's looking great. In this lesson, we'll talk about how this skill of telling an entire story in a single image can be an incredibly powerful tool when applied to comics and graphic novels. Just because a story can be told across multiple images or multiple panels on a comic page doesn't mean that's always the best way to tell the story. As I'm designing a comic page, I'm constantly asking myself, "Can this be more concise? Can this be more direct?" Here's a draft...”

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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (43)
1714 students
4 units
13 lessons (2h 18m)
7 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration

R. Kikuo Johnson

A course by R. Kikuo Johnson

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Illustrator and Cartoonist

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.