Graphic Storytelling
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780961472825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the fundamentals of storytelling in comic book style and offers advice on story construction and visual narratives.
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Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-08-17
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0393346838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set him apart among comics artists, and his principles of body grammar have proven invaluable to legions of students in overcoming what is perhaps the most challenging aspect of creating comics. Buttressed by dozens of illustrations, which display Eisner’s mastery of expression, both subtle and overt, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative will benefit comics fans, students, and teachers and is destined to become the essential primer on the craft.
Comics & Sequential Art
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780961472818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author discusses his ideas and theories and provides instructions on the art of graphic storytelling.
The Visual Narrative Reader
Author: Neil Cohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1472577914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive “reader” that can be used as a coursebook, a researcher resource and a broad overview of fascinating topics suitable for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives.
Design is Storytelling
Author: Ellen Lupton
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781942303190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA playbook for creative thinking, created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design and user experience. Design is Storytelling is a guide to thinking and making created for contemporary students and practitioners working across the fields of graphic design, product design, service design, and user experience. By grounding narrative concepts in fresh, concrete examples and demonstrations, this compelling book provides designers with tools and insights for shaping behaviour and engaging users. Compact, relevant and richly illustrated, the book is written with a sense of humour and a respect for the reader's time and intelligence. Design is Storytelling unpacks the elements of narrative into a fun and useful toolkit, bringing together principles from literary criticism, narratology, cognitive science, semiotics, phenomenology and critical theory to show how visual communication mobilizes instinctive biological processes as well as social norms and conventions. The book uses 250 illustrations to actively engage readers in the process of looking and understanding. This lively book shows how designers can use the principles of storytelling and visual thinking to create beautiful, surprising and effective outcomes. Although the book is full of practical advice for designers, it will also appeal to people more broadly involved in branding, marketing, business and communication.
Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel
Author: Dan Cooney
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764146299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents guidance for creating graphic novels, beginning with establishing characters and continuing through storytelling, drawing technique, composition, inking, coloring, lettering, and strategies for getting the finished product published.
Storytelling with Data
Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-10-09
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1119002265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDon't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!
A Theory of Narrative Drawing
Author: Simon Grennan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1137518448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with theorizations of perception and the articulation of form. The book identifies and examines key issues in the field, including: the relationships between vision, visualization and imagination; the theoretical remediation of linguistic and narratological concepts; the systematization of discourse; the production of the subject; idea and institution; and the significance of resources of the body in depiction, representation and narrative. It then tests this new conception in practice: two original visual demonstrations clarify the particular dialectic relationships between subjects and media, in an examination of drawing style and genre, social consensus and self-conscious constraint. The book’s originality derives from its clear articulation of a wide range of sources in proposing a conception of narrative drawing, and the extrapolation of this new conception in two new visual demonstrations.
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-07-29
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 039333127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Will Eisner's own catalog and other masters, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.
Life in Pictures
Author: Will Eisner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007-10-30
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780393061079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Life, in Pictures' Eisner presents an intimate and personal perspective on his life as a writer and artist through his graphic art. The book features famous characters from the world of comics (under pseudonyms) and other historical figures and family members.
