Comic Creation Specialization: Master Storytelling and Illustration

Overview

“Now that you have some basic understanding of the components and techniques of visual storytelling, let's get down to the nitty-gritty of getting our hands dirty and the pencil to the paper. In this lesson, I will show you how to choose the right moment to work on, so that the reader is able to clearly follow the story. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Choosing the Moment, 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

“Choosing the Moment I believe that a personal way of visual storytelling can emerge from the choices we make of the moments we choose to use to tell our story. We go fast and use a minimal panel approach or a 16 panel grid. The choices we make and the moments we choose to show visually, and it's a way how visual storytelling emerges from these panel moments. Scott McCloud in Making Comics lists these moments in comic storytelling. Moment to moment, action to action, subject to subject, scene to scene, aspect to aspect. Let's take a look at these comic pages to see what panel moments I chose...”

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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