Level 4: Visual Storytelling

Developing Great Visual Stories with Will Terry

In Developing Great Visual Stories, Will Terry takes students through a series of important exercises to hone the craft of concept building. Level up that well-rendered drawing by making sure you're also telling a well-crafted story!

Illustration of a turtle with a camper shell on its back, wearing a cowboy hat and walking through a desert. The left half is fully colored, while the right shows the pencil sketch version and composition thumbnails.
12 lessons
1.5 hours of video content
7 Videos
1 Download

Visual Storytelling is the process of turning good drawings into great stories.

Someone who can draw well isn't necessarily a great storyteller. And not all storytellers can draw. "Developing Great Visual Stories" is a course that teaches the art of bringing the two together, crafting concepts, and creating successful, interesting illustrations.

Professional illustrator and teacher, Will Terry, takes students through the process of building strong concepts by ranking a drawing's effectiveness, developing secondary stories, and producing prompts through random word generation.

Will shares how he develops unique and interesting illustrations that tell stories that have never been told before! This class is one that will definitely level up the creative concepts in your drawings.

In this class you will learn:

How to analyze and rank an illustration's effectiveness
How to develop primary and secondary creative concepts in an illustration
How to produce prompts using random word generation

Course curriculum

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