Drawing America - Narrative Illustration with Pascal Campion
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Drawing America - Narrative Illustration with Pascal Campion
Drawing America - Narrative Illustration with Pascal Campion
https://drawingamerica.com/courses/narrative-illustration-with-pascal-campion/

  • This in-depth course covers Pascal Campion's creative process, from inspiration to completed work. Students will gain a full understanding of the work and creativity that go into creating an original narrative illustration.
  • The goal of this 10-week course is to help students become aware of what a story is and how we use emotions and our intellect to create images from them.


Full Course Description

The goal of this 10-week course is to help students become aware of what a story is and how we use emotions and our intellect to create images from them.

Topics Covered

Drawing Tools: How we use both traditional and digital tools. This class will focus on using Procreate for teaching.

Drawing Fundamentals: We will use a series of unique exercises I use every single time in the creation of my illustrations. Students are likely to not have come across these exercises before. 

Characters: Primarily through “blocking” we look at what makes the audience see a mark on a page as being a character. We examine what  essential elements required for us to understand that this is a character and not something else, what makes them emote, and how we relate to them.

Story: We will focus on time as an element of story, just like depth, space and color that needs to be controlled, directed to tell a story.

Story Development: Starting with simple sketches, poorly drawn we will discover characters, settings, context, and emotional beats. Then we redraw, writing, redraw again, write again, back and forth until a story is set.

Production: Using the tools and skills in the development stage earlier we will redraw our image and get it ready for painting. 

Painting: We will cover all the beautiful little color keys, sketches, production design work you see in ART OF books.  We use these color sketches to associate emotional anchors to scenes, to turning points, creating anticipation or calming down the tone.

Lighting and Comp:
We will cover base lighting and narrative lighting and how these can effect mood but are not the only elements to do so.

One More Thing: The production of the style guide. How to prepare your work for others to produce for animation or illustration.

Putting it all together: The most important part is how to use all of these skills and techniques in a free and non-limiting way.

Materials List

Laptop and tablet. Any drawing software is fine to use (Photoshop, Mischief, Flash, MangaStudio, Paint, whatever); as well with pen and paper.

Drawing America - Narrative Illustration with Pascal Campion
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