Courses
VART3217 Illustrated Narratives (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- VART2215 Typography or VART2217 Illustration or (VART2495 Digital Tools: Graphics Software and VART2496 Digital Tools: Desktop Publishing) or (VART2497 Basic Illustration and VART2505 Experimental Illustration) or (VART2506 Typography and VART2507 Type Design) or (VART2515 Graphic Design and VART2516 Editorial Design)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
"To be a person is to have a story to tell." Isak Dinesen
Storytelling is essential in many creative processes; comic art is a medium that best illustrates its importance through arrangement of visual elements and image-text interactions. This course aims to provide a platform for the students to further develop their sense and understandings in visual communication through the creation of story in the form of comics after they gain fundamental skills in the area of graphic design and illustration.
One major focus of the course is to enhance student's ability to generate story ideas. Workshops about creative writing and other experimental approaches in writing will be provided to allow students to explore their own way of storytelling. Students are also encouraged to establish their individual visual language and graphic style. Through tutorials and projects, specific skills in various aspects such as scriptwriting, storyboarding, drafting, inking and even book making will be addressed.
Learning through experiments is an important component in the course. Apart from fundamental issues in the theories of Comics studies, topics about abstract comics, alternative comics and experimental comics will also be highlighted in order to provide a critical framework for the students to question what "story" could be. Case studies on artists such as Chris Ware and the French comic art group Oubapo will be carried out.