Visual Storytelling Techniques Assignment
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Updating to post the colour finals of the sketches:
Not sure if I should have text on the image when it's in my portfolio - I've read both for and against arguments - any thoughts?Also, I've worked on the "Creative Cropping" assignment using Little Red Riding Hood:
Since watching SVS tutorials (especially Lee White's) I've been trying to deliberately make my working process more simple and faster/streamlined and keeping more of my original drawing lines in the work. Red Riding Hood is a step closer to this, any thoughts or feedback would be really appreciated! Thanks so much! -
This is really nice work congrats:)
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@evilrobot Thanks so much!
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very beautiful work - especially like the "little bathtub" story images. I was impressed with the original sketches, but the rendering brought it to a whole new level - GORGEOUS!
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@Nancy-Gormezano Thank you so much for your lovely feedback!
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I just started the 2nd assignment in this class (the mind mapping) it's amazing how many good ideas you get from this I've got at least 5 really solid ideas to go on and could probably work up even more. Going to start my own thread when I get a few done. Just wanted to say the work you did really made me want to do this class myself.
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@evilrobot Look forward to seeing your work! It's a great class, it's taking me ages to get through it as there is so much great info to digest, and I feel I could make so much work just based on this class! The section about houses and story elements blew my mind, it was a real revelation to see how details make such a difference to your understanding of a story and a character.
The section where Lee White breaks down movies was great too. I saw Batman vs Superman the other day and (without wanting to spoil anything) I was thinking "Well, this doesn't fit the Lee White visual storytelling plan!"
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Just beautiful!
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Great work! I definitely need to take this class!
For the question about including vs not including the text, I think you should. Lee made a comment in the forum once about what to include in a portfolio and he said at least part of the pieces should include text, because it shows publisher you are thinking about it. I tried to dig up Lee's post but I can't find it, I think it was about 1/3 of your pieces that should have text!
Hope this helps!
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@NoWayMe Thanks so much for the advice about text on images, that's really helpful and it makes sense to have a selection including text. I read an article recently by a book designer who said she couldn't stand it when illustrators put sloppy typography on their images, so it put me off including text. Great idea to have mixture of with and without in my portfolio.
