Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

Overview

“In this lesson we will show how to complete the work of the thumbnails , or miniature versions, of the pages, now proposing the combined information of the composition, lighting, movement and action of the scenes, deciding how we are going to to capture, through basic schematic drawings, the interaction in each illustration of the characters with each other and with their surroundings, in an essay prior to what the final vignettes will be, still thinking first of the narrative dimension of the graphic decisions, rather than in the aesthetic qualities of the finished scenes. ”

In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Composition of vignettes, staging, which is part of the Domestika online course: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics. Create fantasy comic strips from the technical script to the sheet in pencil.

Partial transcription of the video

“We arrive at the final lesson of the unit where we will definitely begin to transform the ideas written in the script, and based on the strategy of occupation of page that we defined in the previous lesson, in the drawings that will make up the basic schemas with which we will solve each page. The idea is now to draw inside each vignette a small outline that gives an idea of how solve the drawing of each scene. At this stage, and more on the first page, is very important that when deciding how to frame the images in the bullets when they are presented, for example, new environments or new c...”

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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (176)
• 3987 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 56m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Comic, Traditional illustration