Sequential Images

Basics Illustration #2

by Mark Wigan

Basics Illustration 02: Sequential Images addresses the professional, cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of pictorial storytelling and moving image.

Sequential image-making is a rich area of original and innovative work, which is leading the resurgence in this field. The evolving world of illustration is exploding with possibilities as converging technologies and disciplines provide new opportunities and outlets for the visual storyteller.

In this title, international illustrators, animators, artists and educators at the cutting edge of the narrative renaissance outline their personal methodologies and approaches to sequential image-making.

Genres: Design

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2007

Reviews

[reni · Rating 1 out of 5]

coming in as a total art novice, this was not a book for me, reads like a cross between a bad final year dissertation and a list of stuff the author is simply reeling off. much preferred the scott mccloud series.

[Julia Carbajal · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is the worst book on illustration I have ever read. The author somehow managed to fill 160 pages with zero content. The topic of the book was meant to be sequential images but not a single word was said on how to create a sequence of images. Instead, the pages are filled with countless lists of vague concepts that the author seems to think it's up to the reader to look up, perhaps on other books that actually talk about the topic of sequential illustration. The text could have easily been replaced with bullet points and it would actually be easier to read instead of a 10-line long sentence of comma-separated values.

Some sections are just a full page of names of authors without explaining what they do or why we should look them up. The images accompanying each page of text seem to be completely unrelated to the topic, serve no purpose to illustrate the subject, and come with no explanation as to what it is we should be seeing in those images. What are we looking at? Why is it interesting? How does it relate to the subject? Who knows...

To add insult to injury the graphic design of the book is a complete eyesore. Most pages are black text written over a yellow background, or white text over a black background, with no proper text formatting, and with so many visual distractions it's hard to tell where to look. Your eyes will hurt after staring at this book for more than 5 minutes.

[Grayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book includes an inordinate amount of lists.