Illustration: The Art of Storytelling
10 Week Class | Available
Building on Illustration Essentials, this course explores illustration as a powerful medium for storytelling, interpretation and communication across editorial, fashion, entertainment and commercial contexts. Students investigate how top illustrators convey time, movement, emotion and narrative within single images and sequential layouts. Through hands-on practice, students learn to leverage gesture, setting, composition, pacing and visual cues to bring static images to life.
Base Tuition: $500 + Material Fee: $20 = $520 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Telling stories through gesture, objects and places
- Using colour, composition and space to create emotion
- Visual metaphor and imaginative ways of expressing ideas
- How audience and context change the way an image is displayed and read
- Experimenting with different visual approaches and styles
- Finding new ways to communicate ideas through images
Karen Justl
Karen is a visual artist, illustrator, graphic designer and educator whose work has appeared in galleries in Winnipeg and Toronto, indie films and print publications including at the Sundance Film Festival, TIFF, HOT DOCS and the Winnipeg International Writer's Festival. Her work was featured in the Fantagraphics show Misfit Lit, and her series People and Their Problems won an illustration prize and appeared in Applied Arts magazine. She gained wide acclaim for her 'Cougar' cover for Herizons Magazine and illustrations for Pilot Pocketbook Project and was awarded the Herman Miller Prize at the Toronto Offset Design Festival for her 'NOIR' installation at the Toronto School of Art, among other accomplishments.
Karen holds a Master of Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design University and a BFA Honours from the University of Manitoba. She teaches at OCAD University in the Faculty of Design, and has taught at the University of Manitoba, Ryerson University's Chang School and Toronto School of Art.