Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners
Visual narrative?
A course by Siamés Escalante , Illustrator and graphic designer
About the video: Visual narrative?
Overview
“Now I will briefly tell you about the different ways that images can tell stories through visual discourse. The difference with an illustration, or decorative artistic piece that has no more than pleasing the eye, is that in those with a narrative we focus on what happens behind the image; all that world and that story hidden behind our drawing that supports and enriches it, it gives it a voice of its own.”
In this video lesson Siamés Escalante addresses the topic: Visual narrative?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners. Create illustrations that tell a story with a variety of graphite pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“LESSON 1 What is visual narrative? Now that you know a little more about how graphite works and some shading techniques, I want us to get into visual narrative a little bit, what is visual narrative and how you can tell stories through images. What is visual narrative? Visual narrative is the ability of images to tell a story through visual discourse. Unlike an artistic work, whose method is to please the eye or serve as decoration, in an image with visual narrative we focus on the story behind that image, in all that world and in all those stories that it tells us that enrich it and make i...”
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Course summary for: Visual Storytelling with Graphite for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Siamés Escalante
A course by Siamés Escalante
Adrianna “Siamés” Escalante is a Mexican illustrator born in the Yucatán province, currently living in Mexico City. Her style is inspired by Japanese culture and by the extraordinary imaginative world of children's stories. The illustrations that she creates are considered wholesome and full of life, capable of transporting the viewer to a universe of innocence, fantasy, and melancholy.
She works in editorial as well as creating commercial pieces for clients such as Penguin Random House, Vans, Izzi Telecom, and el Palacio de Hierro. Her work has been exhibited in various art galleries.
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