Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers *[ePub]
The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience ""feel"" the story while they are ""reading"" the story. Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a step-by-step system that will create the most successful storyboards and graphics for the best visual communication. After a brief discussion on narrative art, Marcos introduces us to drawing and composing a single image, to composing steady shots to drawing to compose for continuity between all the shots. These lessons are then applied to three diverse story lines - a train accident, a cowboy tale and bikers approaching a mysterious house. In addition to setting up the shots, he also explains and illustrates visual character development, emotive stances and expressions along with development of the environmental setting to fully develop the visual narrative. Read more
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Why Must Read Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers?
I'm a professional comic artist but I never went to art school so I have to find learning materials on my own. The hardest part of the comic process for me has always been layouts. I've tried reading books on cinematography but none of them really captured the psychology behind a shot that I was looking for. This book does exactly that! The author explains basic cinematography rules, specifically points out what differences in lighting can mean, and explains (with clear examples) what a shot says about a situation without any dialogue. You can piece together a story based around a single shot, and that's exactly what I wanted to learn about. I just wish I had gotten this book before bothering with all the others in my collection.
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