Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience ""feel"" the story while they are ""reading"" the story. Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a step-by-step system that will create the most successful storyboards and graphics for the best visual communication.

After a brief discussion on narrative art, Marcos introduces us to drawing and composing a single image, to composing steady shots to drawing to compose for continuity between all the shots. These lessons are then applied to three diverse story lines - a train accident, a cowboy tale and bikers approaching a mysterious house.

In addition to setting up the shots, he also explains and illustrates visual character development, emotive stances and expressions along with development of the environmental setting to fully develop the visual narrative.

• Framed Drawing Techniques: Mastering Ballpoint Pen, Graphite Pencil, and Digital Tools for Visual Storytelling
• Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
• How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination
• Framed Perspective Vol. 1: Technical Perspective and Visual Storytelling
• Framed Perspective Vol. 2: Technical Drawing for Shadows, Volume, and Characters
• How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling
• How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity
• Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
• Constructive Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
• The Silver Way: Techniques, Tips, and Tutorials for Effective Character Design