Class Info

  • Date: Thursday, February 3rd
  • Meeting Info: ZOOM CLASS INFO BELOW
  • Course Goals: In this course students learn strategies for creating finished, professional-quality sequential illustrations combining words and pictures based on topical themes, autobiographical stories, and self-guided narratives.  Topics and strategies include: storytelling focusing on single-panel, multi-panel, and multiple-page sequential illustrated stories. Projects will be completed using an array of digital and traditional media.  This class will focus on sequential art: sequential art can be comic books, graphic novels, children’s books, comic strips, and more.  Topics and strategies include: storytelling focusing on single-panel, multi-panel, and multiple-page sequential illustrated stories. Projects will be completed using an array of digital and traditional media.

To-Do Before Class

  • Join this Openlab Site
  • Print and Review the Syllabus
  • Purchase Required Books and Supplies

Topic

WELCOME TO NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATION

Objectives

  • To familiarize students with the objectives of the course.
  • To establish working practices and clarify expected outcomes.
  • To familiarize studnets with Sequential Art.
  • To introduce the concept of Time a it realtes to storytelling using images.

Activities

Online Course structure and Expectations

  • LECTURE: What is Narrative Illustration? What is Sequential Art? What is a Comic?
  • DISCUSSION : Genres and Styles: Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga, Zines, Web Comics / IG COMICS
  • DISCUSSION : Comics are an Artform meant to be READ.
  • READING DISCUSSION: MAUS by Art Spiegelman banned in Tennessee.

  • LECTURE: TIME as it relates to comics.
  • DRAWING ACTIVITY : DRAWING TIME
  • DRAWING ACTIVITY : DRAWING ACTIONS WITHIN A PANEL
  • DISCUSSION: What are some of the ways words and images interact in comics? How might the meaning of a drawing change when combined with different words?
  • LECTURE: The 1 Panel COMIC
  • ACTIVITY: New Yorker Magazine CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST

Review Assignments and Expectations for Next Week’s Class

Due Next Week

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Sara Woolley is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: COMD 3513 Narrative Illustration
Time: Feb 3, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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