Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

Overview

“Okay, enough prep! Let's finally get down to the real work of writing: scene work. In this lesson, I will contradict everything I’ve said up to this point by advising you to stop thinking visually at this stage. To find out why, click “Play”! ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Roughing It: The Scenes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration. Learn comic creation, scriptwriting, visual storytelling, and character illustration for digital and print publication.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we'll move on to a different kind of roughing out scenes, which is doing dialogue. For many years now, I've written my comics by writing just the dialogue first. There's a couple reasons I do this. The primary reason is that It forces the visuals to the comic to follow the emotional activity of the scene. And you really only get that by characters expressing themselves mostly through dialogue. So using the page-by-page breakdown we created in the last step as a guide, I just open up a word processing document. I use Scrivener. You can use... Apple pages, Microsoft word, Goog...”

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Course summary for: Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (10)
• 1025 students
• 10 units
• 81 lessons (14h 2m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Fiction Writing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration