Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

“With Framed Ink, Marcos Mateu distills his twenty-plus year career in feature animation into a clear, practical manual on the language of images.  Marcos has a special eye for composition, lighting, and continuity that creates a tangible sense of mood and drama in all of his work.” -       Jeffrey Katzenberg, Co-founder and CEO DreamWorks Animation SKG

"Great book for anyone who is into comics!" according to Strider. Compostion never really been a problem area for me, back in high school I was most regarded by peers and teachers as someone who knew her compostion. But this book helps bring it to the next level from good to amazing. The illustrations help give the focal point-on how your art should be placed upon your canvas. Don't be focused on your linework be focused on placement. It's an inf. Rita Bu said Great book. I have for some time been looking for a book like this. It gives an easy to understand explanation on how to make good transitions between the frames like; perspective, angle, lighting to set different moods, use of distance etc. As I like to draw and have many good ideas but no previous knowledge of how to make comics this was definitely helpful. The book has a lot of illustrated . Better Than I Expected It took about a month for this book to arrive, but it was well worth the wait. When I flipped through the pages, I was somewhat impressed with the artwork, but not very. A second flip-through (double-take) proved that the book was mostly made up of inking and not a whole lot of text. I began to worry if I'd been duped and wasted my money. What could I possibly learn from a bunch of

Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a step-by-step system that will create the most successful storyboards and graphics for the best visual communication.After a brief discussion on narrative art, Marcos introduces us to drawing and composing a single image, to composing steady shots to drawing to compose for continuity between all the shots. The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience ""feel"" the story while they are ""reading"" the story. These lessons are then applied to three diverse story lines - a train accident, a cowboy tale and bikers approaching a mysterious house.In addition to setting up the shots, he also explains and illustrates visual character development, emotive stances and expressions along with development of the environmental setting to fully develop the visual narrative.