Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Designed as a craftsperson's overview of the drawing and storytelling decisions and possibilities available to comics artists, covering everything from facial expressions and page layout to the choice of tools and story construction, Making Comics, like its predecessors, is also an eye-opening trip behind the scenes of art-making, fascinating for anyone reading comics as well as those making them.
In this textbook you'll will take your communication skills to another galaxy! You'll discover how people think, how they process information and what goes on behind the scenes (i.e in everyone's brain) so you can tailor your communications to get what you need and the desired outcomes.
Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
In Make a Scene, author Jordan E. Rosenfeld takes you through the fundamentals of strong scene construction and explains how other essential fiction-writing techniques, such as character, plot, and dramatic tension, must function within the framework of individual scenes in order to provide substance and structure to the overall story.
The authors describe and demonstrate the variety of projects that can be created from these patterns—wall hangings, holiday decorations, door stops, key rings, candle holders, switch plates, and decorative shelves. In addition, the standard patterns for animal figures, vehicles, nature scenes, and common folk-art images can be used by innovative craftspersons who work in media such as quilts, appliqué, stained glass, stencils, and jewelry.
Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes - from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between
If mainstream music has your ear splitting, jump off that main music road that you've been on for so long and embark on a bumpy out-of-the-way journey to an 11-city soundscape exploration with Leslie Simon as your expert and entertaining guide with her book //Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Music Scenes--From Punk To Indie And Everything In Between. And just as you might have suspected, there's so much percolating underneath the Billboard Top 100.
