ONLINE COURSE

Visual Storytelling: Light, Color and Space

Frank Espinosa
Exploring how light, color, and spatial composition shape mood, guide the eye, and strengthen visual narrative.
We’ll explore strategies for composing with intention—organizing shapes, contrasts, and spatial relationships to lead the viewer’s eye and strengthen narrative flow. By understanding how visual space can communicate story just as effectively as character or dialogue, you’ll gain tools to construct images that feel cohesive, expressive, and purposeful. About the Instructor – Frank Espinosa Frank Espinosa attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, specializing in film and animation. Early in his career, he worked for Walt Disney Animation, later becoming Art Director at Warner Bros., where he created an award-winning character design manual, redesigned the Looney Tunes characters, and developed Baby Looney Tunes as well as the full series of Looney Tunes postage stamps. He was awarded the Martin Luther King Visiting Professor Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 and 2007, lectured at the Ohio State University and the Collins College Lecture Series, and developed a comics series for Princeton University. Espinosa also created and illustrated a graphic novel based on the life of Salvatore Ferragamo, with illustrations displayed in shop windows around the world. His graphic novel Rocketo was nominated for three Eisner Awards. He has served as Art Director for Zum Zum Books and is currently illustrating new editions of Frankenstein, Dracula, Candide, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, to be published in Italy.

Time available

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM [CET UTC+1] / 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM [CST UTC-6]

Lesson lenght

3 h

Overall duration

4 month

Recordings

Available for 1 year

Starter pack
The course is open to anyone with a basic drawing background.
Heavy-weight paper, specific brushes, and gouache paint; the detailed materials list will be provided to enrolled students.
Each lesson will include both a theoretical component and a hands-on workshop, with targeted exercises to be completed during class as well as assignments to be developed for the following session. By the end of the course, you will complete a small project suitable for inclusion in your portfolio.
Understand how light and color interact to create atmosphere, depth, and visual rhythm in illustrations and sequential art.
Strong compositional and visual hierarchy skills

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