Narrative Techniques for Graphic Novels

Charles Glaubitz will introduce himself and explain how his interest in art, comics, and animation led to his devotion to the narrative world. He also will show you a few of his artistic references and influences.

You will start by analyzing the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll as the basis of your comic script, in order to develop your story using the hero cycle method. You will identify the poem’s archetypes to create your characters for the narrative and begin to structure the comic using various grids with six vignettes.

Next up, you will begin to sketch simple ideas and compositions and choose the structure. You will import the sketches in Procreate in order to develop and finish them, adding lights and shadows to achieve contrast and visual strength.

You will move on to the final sketches, and learn how to complete the last details to transfer and print the sketch on drawing paper and start using ink. Finally, you will learn the process and the tools required to ink the pages.