Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories

Overview

“Once you have your story in script form, you can start drawing it and making first drafts of the story. I'll show you how to create model sheets of all the characters in the story or at least the main ones to always have their graphic description in front of you as you illustrate them on the pages. ”

In this video lesson Takoua Ben Mohamed addresses the topic: First drafts of the comic, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories. Use the drawing to represent a true story, news, or event giving voice and face to its protagonists. .

Partial transcription of the video

“First drafts of the comic Once we finish our script, we can start drawing. In this lesson, we start with characters. I usually keep the script close to me, the timeline and the photographs as reference and the maps. To draw my characters i mainly need the script where I identify all the characters described and illustrate them. To draw my characters i need a modelsheet and then I'll use that too as a reference. Then the characters will be drawn from a frontal angle: left side, right side and back side. In this way, once I draw the characters in the comic, I have before me the references of ...”

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Course summary for: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories

• Level: Beginner
• 90% positive reviews (10)
• 539 students
• 4 units
• 10 lessons (1h 30m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration