Storytelling

Cellphones and Comics: Keys to Visual Storytelling

By Rachel Wintemberg, posted on Nov 13, 2024

My design students start the year taking photos and end the year creating their own hand-drawn comic books or animatics (animated storyboards). If you want your students to create art that communicates, my advice is to have them take lots of photos with their cellphones (both in and out of the classroom) and read comic books. This is a quick and fun way to improve and artist’s sense of visual composition.

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