ART-335: Narrative Drawing including the Graphic Novel
3 credit hours
From simple stick figures to fully realized characters, we all have drawn narrative-based tales. This course will develop your ability to utilize the language of visual narrative through iconic and representational forms, developing individual styles of visual storytelling through the creation of short narrative works in a variety of genres that can include comic strips, graphic novels, photo-collages, web-comics, children's stories, and traditional and stop motion animations. In addition to hands-on studio work, we will discuss the role of the comic strip as a narrative, semiotic-rich device for artists and designers, and study the narrative techniques of contemporary media artists working in a variety of genres.