Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations

Professional Advice

A course by R. Kikuo Johnson , Illustrator and Cartoonist

100% positive reviews (43)

1,714 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Professional Advice

Overview

“To finish, I will share some professional tips. You will learn how to apply the content discussed in this course to a career in narrative picture making. ”

In this video lesson R. Kikuo Johnson addresses the topic: Professional Advice, 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

“ Professional Advice Now, we've looked at how telling an entire story in a single image can be applied to comics and graphic novels, we've made it to our final lesson. In this lesson, I'll try to offer professional advice based on my own experience in the field, and also some general advice that hopefully, any creative person can use. PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Start to Draw The first step can sound simple, but it can be the most daunting, which is to start. If you want to draw comics or magazine covers, start drawing comics and start making images that look like magazine covers. PROFESSIONAL ADV...”

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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.