Tài liệu tham khảo bằng tiếng Anh về nghệ thiật hội họa - Figure Drawing Without A Model - Graphic Narrative | CHAPTER 8 GRAPHIC NARRATIVE Graphic narrative or what is commonly called comic-strip uses words and sequences of images in tandem in order to tell a story. As an artform it lies roughly at the crossroads between literature illustration and cinema having much in common with all three and containing elements of each. It is like literature in that it is concerned with telling a story like illustration in that it uses drawings to give visual information and like cinema in that it uses a combination of words and images to carry its message. Only in the past few decades has graphic narrative been developed as a distinct medium not until recently has its true potential begun to be investigated. It demands a talent for story-telling a feeling for what words can do what pictures can do what part each most effectively plays the way in which word-and-picture combinations can provide a more profound aesthetic experience than either words or pictures alone More than in any other field of illustration artists in graphic narrative may find themselves subject to editorial constraints that can be both puzzling and frustrating. Editors being word-specialists appreciate the concept-patterns that words can stimulate in the mind but may occasionally show a surprising blindness to the subtle messages contained in the pictorial element of graphic narrative. Some I think suspect the artist of trying to obviate the need for words altogether - which is very far from true. The success of any artform depends to a great extent on its unity - its consistency of form - and on its creators skill in utilizing all the techniques at their disposal. Nowhere is this more true than in graphic narrative. 145 FIGURE DRAWING WITHOUT A MODEL The illustrations above and below are fragments of one complete picture. Each fragment is the same size and represents approximately one-third of the whole picture. So why does one fragment look more complete than the other Narrative Form Stories have a structure just
