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This online course focuses on:
- Exploring the various genres of the graphic novel as a format for visual storytelling
- Story: Start with an idea and develop a plot structure
- Strengthening your existing style or create an art style for the graphic novel format
- World building: Designing characters, environments, props and settings for your universe
- Learning the language of sequential narrative imagery
- The art of paneling, pacing & page turns
- How to develop a 'pitch package' for submission to publishers or literary agents
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10 Lesson video course taught by Caleb Cleveland and Larissa Marantz
Caleb is the former Assistant Chair of the Illustration Entertainment Design department at Laguna College of Art + Design.
A freelance artist based in San Diego, his career began in theatre designing sets and costumes but has since taken him to many other aspects of commercial art, including illustration, furniture design, comics, and concept art for video games.
His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Steve Jackson Games, Chaosium Inc.,
The Jim Henson Company, and BOOM! Studios.
He is also the co-creator of the illustrated picture books
THE ABC'S OF D&D and THE 123'S OF D&D.
Larissa Marantz is currently illustrating Blake Laser, a graphic novel to be published by HarperCollins in 2022.
Caleb is the former Assistant Chair of the Illustration Entertainment Design department at Laguna College of Art + Design.
A freelance artist based in San Diego, his career began in theatre designing sets and costumes but has since taken him to many other aspects of commercial art, including illustration, furniture design, comics, and concept art for video games.
His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Steve Jackson Games, Chaosium Inc.,
The Jim Henson Company, and BOOM! Studios.
He is also the co-creator of the illustrated picture books
THE ABC'S OF D&D and THE 123'S OF D&D.
Larissa Marantz is currently illustrating Blake Laser, a graphic novel to be published by HarperCollins in 2022.
This online course consists of lectures, slide presentations, drawing demonstrations and selective student critiques.
