Skills You’ll Learn
Class Summary
Visual storytelling is more than simply creating a narrative in an illustration. It’s a way of expressing an emotional journey and connecting with your audience that goes beyond words. It’s the experiences that you have gone through and a message from your authentic story.
This class will teach you a method to effectively plan out the visual storytelling of your illustration, and go through the fundamentals of how to paint a scene with a full background with 3D modeling, render characters, and the secret ingredients to tie the whole artwork together.
Class Takeaways
- Students will be equipped to create full narrative illustrations with creative visual storytelling.
- Skills to train eyes to view art cinematically and utilize techniques from oil painting to the digital artwork.
- For those who have struggled in creating backgrounds or painting characters, I will share tips for using basic 3D modeling and the lasso tool for a more straightforward illustration-making process.
- At the end of this class, students will have completed one full narrative illustration of a chosen story.
This Class Is For
- For beginners and intermediate-level artists who want to improve their work to upgraded standards.
- Students who wish to get started with the 3D-modeling program, Blender.
- Anyone who is curious about the art world wants to create original visual stories.
Class Requirements
- In this class, Adobe Photoshop, Blender, and PureRef will be used, but you can use different versions.
- For more information on Adobe Photoshop, visit here.
- For more information on Blender, visit here.
- For more information on PureRef, visit here.
- Students will have to purchase 'Adobe Photoshop' or other digital drawing tools. It is not included in the course package.
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Samantha Sahagun
Hello, my name is Samantha! I’m mostly known as himaeart on social media platforms.
With a passion for connecting and empathizing with people, I switched my career away from medicine and found my true purpose in visual storytelling. From my background in oil painting and studying cinematography, I connect a lot of what I’ve learned from traditional art and films to amplify the visuals into my digital artworks. I typically create fan content for my favorite video games and shows, which has led to incredible opportunities in freelance visual development and illustration and becoming a guest artist in many projects. I have also worked with DeviantArt to represent them in the Comic Creator Connection at San Diego Comic-Con.
The power of technology is so incredible that we can share our knowledge and passions from a distance. If it weren’t for similar online courses like these, I would not have learned as quickly as I could have. After many years of studying with trial and error, I found effective techniques to help create the stepping stones to your progression in storytelling art.
I am incredibly eager for all of you to take this course, and together we can share our own stories to immerse ourselves in different worlds!
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