You explore capturing action, emotion, drama and movement look at representation, documentation and communication, and the unique use of time in sequential art. Through critical review of the tools and techniques used by the medium’s most significant creators, you develop your understanding of the power of the comic medium to tell stories in a variety of ways. You practically explore the relationship between writing, design and drawing in your work. Through practice, you explore new ways of creating and using images for narrative, including: interpreting written descriptions as images, drawing as a non-verbal form of communication and experimenting with comics’ unique interplay of words and images.
#Create your own graphic novel using digital techniques professional
You bring your visual and narrative practise to a new level of professional and creative skill.
Alongside this, you can gain valuable experience and engagement with the sector through our shorter work placements, internships and work experience opportunities. You emerge as experts at communicating through cartooning, understanding how the medium works from the technical aspects of perspective, composition and figure drawing to the founding theories of modern literature.Ĭomics are also entering into more mainstream areas of advertising, marketing and public relations - anywhere where a message needs to be communicated in as unforgettable and universal a manner as possible.Īn optional work placement year is included, at no extra cost. We aim to produce a new breed of storytellers, each with their own individual, formidable voice. The mastery of communication through words and pictures is at the heart of this course. The combination of words and pictures can produce something more powerful, more exciting and more personal than either alone. We have seen a graphic novel awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 50c funny books of the 1960s turned into iconic, billion dollar franchises and the internet change the way we make and read comics forever. We live in a golden age for the comic book, in which Far Eastern manga is now part of the popular culture of the West. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.' Dr SeussĬreating comics is more than a job - it's a vocation. Kirsty talks about her experience of studying comics and graphic novels at Teesside. Kirsty Stebbings, BA (Hons) Comics and Graphic Novels
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