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  • Going Wordless: stef lenk on creating visual-based narratives

    Stef Lenk

    Stef Lenk

    Wordless graphic novels are becoming an increasingly popular genre—for good reason.

    As described by stef lenk, creating narratives that rely solely on visual metaphors “can open up a story to create more universal significance to audiences.”

    But how does limiting a story to images impact its interpretation? What is lost? What is gained? And what do artist-authors need to keep in mind when creating them?

    Lenk is the the author of eight picture books for children and adults and her illustrations have appeared in Broken Pencil magazine and Brick Literary Journal. She completed a Master of Science from the University of Dundee Scotland and now works at the Freie University in Berlin for the PathoGraphics project, a research project examining aesthetics in comics and illness narratives.

    Check out her SkIP presentation to explore what it means to tell a visual-only story and learn tips to help you make your own.

  • Dead boys, drawings, and new discoveries: Katarina Thorsen, SkIP presenter

    Dead boys, drawings, and new discoveries: Katarina Thorsen, SkIP presenter

     

    Katerina Thorsen Babes in the Woods

    One (possibly sunny) day in the 1940s, someone took two little boys deep into Stanley Park and murdered them with a hatchet.

    The Babes in the Woods case continues to be, according to Eve Lazarus, the city’s most bafflying unsolved mystery.

    In her online serialized graphic novel, Artist and criminal profiling student, Katarina Thorsen, uses the power of drawing to reframe research, interviews and published accounts to weave to together a new resolution to this most troubling excerpt of Vancouver’s history.

    Hear her describe first-hand why and how drawing was essential to her practice in both interpreting and representing case-related data at her SkIP session.

    Check more of Thorsen’s work in her online gallery (also known as a website) https://katthorsen.com/.

  • Check out SKiP 2017 presenters – proposals still accepted

    Check out SKiP 2017 presenters – proposals still accepted

    We still have a few spots left!! Proposals will be accepted until all spots are full. Accepted presenters are being uploaded to Presenters 2017 page daily at https://sketchpractice.ca/blog/presenters-2017/. 

    It is going to be a diverse, experiential, exceptional year! Check it out and be apart of it!  Find out about these presenters here https://sketchpractice.ca/blog/presenters-2017/.  Registration opens very soon!