CORSO DI Visual Storytelling: Brush, Light & Shadow ONLINE – Frank Espinosa (EN)
Visual Storytelling: Brush, Light & Shadow ONLINE – Frank Espinosa (EN)
Discover a new way of telling stories through images with Frank Espinosa, acclaimed artist and storyteller.
This intensive course, open to students of comics, illustration, and animation storyboarding, explores the language of drawing as a pure form of communication, narrating without words, using only line, light, and composition.
Over a series of 15 lessons, you’ll dive into the foundations of visual storytelling:
Clarity and communication through drawing
The art of simplification and spatial composition
Perspective and point of view
Movement, rhythm, light, and shadow
You’ll go back to the roots of drawing — pencil, paper, and brush — to rediscover the tactile craft of making art in black and white. Expect practical assignments, brush exercises, and two major projects:
A children’s book or mythological tale
A four-page comic
In the second part of the course, Light, Color, and Space, you’ll explore how light behaves and how color shapes emotion and form. Through color thumbnails, painting exercises, and sequential art projects, you’ll learn to create vivid scenes and immersive worlds — from underwater to outer space.
Students can work in the medium of their choice — gouache, watercolor, acrylic, oils, pastels, color pencils, or digital— while studying how light and color bring life to storytelling.
About the Instructor – Frank Espinosa
Frank Espinosa attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, specializing in film and animation. Early in his career, he worked for Walt Disney Animation, later becoming Art Director at Warner Bros., where he created an award-winning character design manual, redesigned the Looney Tunes characters, and developed Baby Looney Tunes as well as the full series of Looney Tunes postage stamps.
He was awarded the Martin Luther King Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 and 2007, lectured at the Ohio State University and the Collins College Lecture Series, and developed a comics series for Princeton University.
Espinosa also created and illustrated a graphic novel based on the life of Salvatore Ferragamo, with illustrations displayed in shop windows around the world. His graphic novel Rocketo was nominated for three Eisner Awards.
He has served as Art Director for Zum Zum Books and is currently illustrating new editions of Frankenstein, Dracula, Candide, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, to be published in Italy.
Join us online and experience storytelling through the eyes (and brush) of one of the masters of sequential art.
Soluzione unica: 650 euro
Rateizzato: 4 rate da 175 euro
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Visual Storytelling: Brush, Light & Shadow ONLINE – Frank Espinosa (EN)
Visual Storytelling: Brush, Light & Shadow ONLINE – Frank Espinosa (EN)
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