Salvatore Rubbino's Wordless Narrative Workshop

Today I had a workshop with Illustrator Salvatore Rubbino. He was helping us explore the ideas and approaches to creating a wordless narrative.

Salvatore gave many great tips on how to create and structure a narrative. He suggested that when we plan a narrative, we draw out each frame on a different piece of paper, that way we can move scenes around or slot ones in that we feel may suit the flow of the story better.

I chose to illustrate a sequence from 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' for this workshop, as I am still unsure as to which book to pick.

I chose this section of the novel as it's very descriptive and contains a lot of vivid imagery. In this scene Haroun is describing the houseboat he is on, the windows and the furniture. I chose to illustrate this section in the exciting way that Salvatore suggested, bringing the figures in the windows to life.

Finalised Work from Workshop 1

Here are my refined pieces from my first workshop. These have been refined in Illustrator. I chose to use two frames from my "Lord of the Flies' sequence and one of my drawings from one of the exercises.

Jonny Clapham's Movement Workshop

Last Friday we had a workshop with Jonny which was all about movement. In this workshop he wanted us to all practice working towards a reveal with our illustrations.

The first step was to take turns drawing three frames of movement, and then leaving the final frame free for a surprise ending. Once we had a few movements illustrated (I had a dancing person and a person looking in a plant) Jonny gave us a number of different types of ending scenarios to try out, ranging from a disaster to a romantic surprise.

We then had to relate what we had practiced to the brief. As I am unsure which book to pick, I chose Travelling Light, as this is one that I am interested in. The scene I picked involved a female character returning an old hat, and being pleasantly surprised by who the owner of the hat turns out to be.

This is just a rough idea of the frames I will be working with. I will refine these ideas on Adobe Illustrator.