Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings
Key Elements of Visual Development
A course by Lara Pickle , Visual Development Artist
About the video: Key Elements of Visual Development
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share the key elements of visual development, such as storytelling, cinematography, and style. These are all elements you will need to take into account when working on your project.”
In this video lesson Lara Pickle addresses the topic: Key Elements of Visual Development, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings. Learn the creative process behind illustrating visual environments for storytelling, from the initial idea to the final composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we're going to be learning what the key elements of visual development A fundamental rule of visual development is show, don't tell. So it's like telling a joke, it has to be well timed and it has to be well told for it to be funny. If you over-explain the joke, it loses its punch and it's just not that funny anymore. Have you ever heard of the saying, a picture is worth a thousand words? Well, this is something that applies very heavily to specifically visual storytelling. The audience has to grasp the feeling, the ambience and the whole emotions. of a scene in one glance. I...”
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Course summary for: Visual Development: Illustrate Imaginary Settings
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing

Lara Pickle
A course by Lara Pickle
Larisa Bumb, better known as Lara Pickle, is a Spanish-Romanian visual development artist based in the UK. Inspired by the cartoons of her childhood, she always knew she wanted to draw for a living. Although she studied animation, she found that her passion lay elsewhere in the industry. She loves the behind-the-scenes work of developing characters and the environments they live in, as it gives her the freedom to explore her imagination and tell stories through her art.
Over the course of her career, Lara has developed designs for animated shows like Nickelodeon’s Pony, Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park, Nella the Princess Knight, and Powerbirds, as well as the musical P.S. I’m a Terrible Person and the comic Kajko and Kokosz. She has also published her own graphic novel Estoy fatal, gracias.
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