Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe

Learn to create your own fictional world through visual storytelling

• Introduction
• Words
• Images
• Presentation
• Final project

Engage in a new form of storytelling and turn a well-known story into a creative cartoon. Comic book artist Sam Hart has been creating comics his whole life. His passion for creating alternative universes has seen him draw iconic characters including Robin Hood, King Arthur, and Judge Dred and go on to work for Africa, one for the largest advertising agencies in Latin America.

In this course, he shares his expertise in combining the visual with the textual to craft compelling stories filled with emotion. Learn the essentials of comic book creation, from writing an impactful script to bringing the words on the page to life.

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials
• Elements of a Comic Book Page
• Sequential Narrative
• Setting the Story
• Layout
• First Drawings
• The Big Picture
• Real Estate of the Page
• Inking
• Final Tips
• Sharing and Publishing
• Visual Narrative for Comic Books: Illustrate Your Own Universe