Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

Overview

“I will explain how the first drawings of the page are always very loose sketches, exploring options, changing panel and character sizes until you can happily settle on a functional layout. It is often, paradoxically, the fastest and also most exhaustive process in graphic storytelling. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Layout, 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

“Layouts are the first point at which we will translate into visual graphics the story that we have in our script. I like to use a sketchbook as it's handy, can take it anywhere. but you can use any kind of paper. small or big. But the important thing about layouts is that they're not the finished artwork. They're just very small. Often we call them thumbnails. And you can use any materials. You can even use pen or brush. I like to use pencil as we can erase often. So I have my character. and I also have my antagonist. My main character is an artist. So I've done him kind of with a nerdy loo...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (10)
• 1026 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