Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations

Learn how to tell a complete story in a single image by exploring narrative illustration and drawing exercises in the style and medium of choice

• Introduction
• Storytelling Techniques for Narrative Illustration
• Starting to Draw
• Broader Applications to Your Storytelling Skills
• Final project

Using creative illustration techniques, you can transform people, places, and objects into compelling images that tell stories. R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator and cartoonist whose goal is to do just that. He has collaborated with clients including Airbnb and Coca-Cola, and had his work featured in publications like The New York Times, and The New Yorker.

In this online course, he teaches you how to tell a complete story in a single image, in whatever style or medium you choose. By combining narrative concepts with drawing techniques, you’ll create images that truly speak louder than words.

• About Me
• Influences
• 9 Tricks to Telling a Story in One Image
• Understanding the Problem
• Researching
• Sketching 1
• Sketching 2
• Reference Photos with Yourself as a Model
• Coloring the Sketch
• Linework
• The Final Colored Illustration
• Single-Image Storytelling: Comics and Graphic Novels
• Professional Advice
• Visual Storytelling for Compelling Illustrations