Illustrating a Narrative
Course Overview
Illustration is the art of storytelling through images!
Illustrating a narrative creates a subtext for words while communicating and orchestrating an emotional response and enhancing the duplicity of words and pictures. Like theatre, it allows the reader a glimpse into another dimension beyond the words.
This course is designed to develop perceptual, imaginative and technical skills to illustrate a story, a personal prose, a poem, a book cover, a children’s book, an essay, a graphic novel, a travel diary or a personal narrative project.
During the course, Nettie will guide the participants through the steps, techniques and imaginative processes necessary to create and illustrate an individual narrative text, tailored to the specific style and needs of each participant.
Each week she will set home exercises to focus on particular skills and techniques, demonstrated and experimented within the class, which will provide a “tool kit” of ideas. Each class will involve exercises in ideas generation, general drawing, ( both technical and creative), and a class critique of the homework, encouraging class participation and an exchange of ideas.
In each class, Nettie will provide demonstrations of various illustration techniques including:
- Watercolour
- Acrylic
- Collage
- Photomontage
- Pen & Ink
- Mono printing & pencils.
The participants will have the opportunity to experiment with all the demonstrated techniques.
The first class of the course will be spent experimenting with techniques, the 2nd week will be spent developing illustration ideas for individual projects and the last week will be spent working on individual projects with one on one feedback and instruction for each participant.
Materials
- As techniques that will be taught and demonstrated will vary, participants will be advised each week as to what materials will be required the following week.
- An A4 sketch book and 2B and 4B pencils, an eraser, scissors and a glue stick will be required for every class.
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