Learn to tell a visual story

“When the words are not enough. Get your point across using comics strips.”

What the course is about?
Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity around us. The crucial elements of storytelling are plot, characters and narrative point of view. Same elements that are needed also in any product design communication or getting your thought accross. In this introductory course student learns the basics of how to structure the communication of any topic, focusing on essential trough writing and drawing. He/she learns basic storytelling and drawing methods that helps to compose the visual story so that anyone can relate to the described situation. The learned skill is applicable in different fields of life, from business development to presenting ideas from small to large audience.

The course is designed to everyone who feels a need to communicate their ideas trough visual storytelling. Participants will work on topic and elaborate it into the short comic strip. The course is based on methodology "Learn by doing". In my course I had person with different background; product owners, product managers, designer, engineer, architects, researchers, sales person and HR people.

To whom: Absolute beginners
Duration: Four lessons, 1 hour each lesson
Interested: contact virva@virva.biz

What will you learn?

1. Lesson - From topic to script

• Basic anatomy of comics

• Four properties of comics

• Comic creation process

• Define and write the script

2. Lesson: Basic drawing techniques

• Basic shapes

• Drawing a figure

• Drawing faces with expressions

• Drawing settings and objects

What my students say

“First of all, thank you for the great training! The content for me was really sufficient, not too much detail but enough info to appreciate the efforts in  comics. I will definitely be using comics to make more clear statements in the trainings & presentation from now on.” - Business operation manager

“I really enjoyed the course and learned some new things! But for me the course was even more interesting than I expected and I particularly liked the materials you have prepared for us and also the small step by step tutorials, we could easily follow to draw a bird or a person. You convinced even those like me, who cannot draw at all, that it’s not impossible.” - Billing operation manager

“Thank you again for organizing this training, it was a great experience to me. The cadence, schedule, timing, duration were perfectly fine for me. To me the content was OK overall, the theory was enough but not too much.” - Agile Coach