Storytelling Illustration for Teens : Graphic Novel Illustration

Name: Storytelling Illustration for Teens : Graphic Novel Illustration
Start: 2023-12-18T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Creatively Wild Art Studio

*The event has already taken place on this date: Mon, 12/18/2023

Through week-to-week drawing exercises, students develop an understanding of storytelling through visual language tools.

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How do you tell a story without words or very few words? Through week-to-week drawing exercises, students develop a better understanding through visual language tools. Traditional storyboards involve a series of conceptual pencil sketches and drawings to tell a story as a graphic novel or as the foundation of storytelling for movies or animation. The key to storyboarding is the practice and understanding of how storytelling is excavated. In this course we will examine graphic novels, movies, TV series, or commercials and study each scene and draw them out. Look how camera angles help to tell a story and are cut up and told visually. This an excellent course for those interested in new media and how storytelling works with graphic novel, film and TV.

Please note a full course curriculum is recommended and essential to see any real progress in this craft. ( or a minimum of 6 lessons)

Class Curriculum

The course will begin exploring basic storytelling: pacing, page flow, composition, and angles:
How to make a single illustration based on a favorite song, movie poster, or book.
How to choose the elements to economically tell your story in summary without all of its parts
How to use unconventional shapes and manipulate anatomy and facial features to tell your story and lead the eye through a piece. Students will design their own characters, and an environment for the story to play.
Explore tension and learn how to build suspense to convey emotion in a narrative. Using the medium itself as a storytelling tool (artistic changes to panel border, page layout, etc) pacing, and framing. Students will design sample pages of an escalated emotional change between characters in their story- for example, a fight scene, a romantic interlude, etc.
Exercises on how to draw from a professional script with the subject matter of your choice. And how to draw panel-to-panel illustrations
How to categorize information, sort by importance, and turn information into a layout.
Your instructor will provide sample scripts but students can work from their own scripts/prompts/ poetry and will be asked to write a sample script (1-2 pages) to draw from to better understand the storytelling process

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