Story Arts & Illustration
Tell a story without using words. Communicate through your illustrations – making them gentle, powerful, mysterious, whimsical. From the beginner to the experienced illustrator, girls work at an individual pace to try create their own styles and use illustration as a creative, communicative tool.
The first half of the session focuses on illustration styles, techniques and skills. Students create a lot of work and explore line quality, shading, texture and color. They sharpen their technical and artistic skills, and play with a variety of drawing and painting media.
In the second half of the session, girls apply their skills to storytelling. They use illustration to evoke emotion, develop characters, and create conflict, tension and resolution. They combine images and words to create visual narrative for single panel illustrations, comic strips or storyboards. Students experiment with lettering, inking, composition and perspective.
The areas covered in this class provide a foundation for girls to pursue their ideas in the formats of comics and graphic novels as well as in storyboards for film or animation. For students who love to write and draw, this is a perfect complement to Creative Writing.