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Framed ink: drawing and composition for visual storytellers
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Publisher
Design Studio Press
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
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From the Graphic Novel - 1st ed.
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: General Thoughts On Narrative Art
Think, feel, What is the whole story, the specific, the shot about?
How do we bring an audience into our world?
General tone of the story / consistency
Not telling the audience things, but making them feel things
Chapter 2: Drawing And Composing A Single Image (Basics)
Atmosphere
Lighting
Drawing in chiaroscuro
Studying reality as it appears in front of us
Working the flat surface / a basic checklist
Quick word on lenses
Chapter 3: Composing Shots With A Purpose
Introduction
Part 1: Visual message within a still composition (analyzing examples)
Restaurant (a general case)
Establishing shots
Animating the scene
Looking down, feeling down
Overpowering upshots
Using the negative space
Order vs chaos
Complex vs simple
Big vs small
Angular vs curved
Tree vs forest effect (numbers)
Big, medium, small
Landscape as a character
Conceal and reveal (emotions)
Weird beats, weird shots
POV (point of view)
Daytime /nighttime
Keeping the focal point
Scale progression
Knowledge vs unawareness (intercutting)
Beyond the standard points of interest (icons)
Action shots
Part 2: Working with motion
Camera move within the set / camera motivation
Horizontal pan (the train station)
Vertical pan (epic shot)
Changes in the mood (the visit)
Reveal (a new land)
Locking the camera (road diner)
Locking the camera (high desert meeting)
Chapter 4: Composing For Continuity
How one thing affects the next: thinking in continuity
Why build up to a climax?
Ramping up (1) - Train flat from the side
Ramping up (2) - Train in perspective
Using the same elements we can deliver very different messages
"The Cowboys Part 1: Keeping the camera on the same spot
"The Cowboys" Part 2: Changing the camera position with a purpose
Using the same elements we can deliver very different messages / transitions
Bikers Part 1: Mystery house
"Bikers" Part 2: Mobsters in the attic
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Chapter 5: Graphic Novel
Introduction
Part 1: Characters
Overall silhouette / the head
Overall silhouette / the body
Dynamics of expression / the face
Dynamics of expression / the body
Part 2: Panel and the page
Panel
Page
Balloons and onomatopoeias
Last thoughts
Index.
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9781933492957
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