{"id":987,"date":"2017-05-26T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:18:52","slug":"going-wordless-stef-lenk-on-creating-visual-based-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/going-wordless-stef-lenk-on-creating-visual-based-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Wordless: stef lenk on creating visual-based narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.40.48-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-989\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.40.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Stef Lenk\" width=\"789\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.40.48-PM.png 789w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.40.48-PM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.40.48-PM-768x477.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.41.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-988\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.41.28-PM.png\" alt=\"Stef Lenk\" width=\"752\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.41.28-PM.png 752w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-24-at-2.41.28-PM-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wonderfully-Wordless-Recommended-Graphic-Picture\/dp\/1442254777\">Wordless graphic novels<\/a> are becoming an increasingly popular genre\u2014for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>As described by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steflenk.com\">stef lenk<\/a>, creating narratives that rely solely on visual metaphors \u201ccan open up a story to create more universal significance to audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>Lenk is the the author of eight picture books for children and adults and her illustrations have appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fahrenheit450.org\/a_PRINT\/PRINT_08_BrokenPencil.html\">Broken Pencil magazine<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fahrenheit450.org\/a_PRINT\/PRINT_11_Brick.html\">Brick Literary Journal<\/a>. She completed a Master of Science from the University of Dundee Scotland and now works at the Freie University in Berlin for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de\/friedrichschlegel\/assoziierte_projekte\/Pathographics\/index.html\">PathoGraphics project<\/a>, a research project examining\u00a0aesthetics in comics and illness narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/presenters-2017\/\">her SkIP presentation<\/a> to explore what it means to tell a visual-only story and learn tips to help you make your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wordless graphic novels are becoming an increasingly popular genre\u2014for good reason. As described by stef lenk, creating narratives that rely solely on visual metaphors \u201ccan open up a story to create more universal significance to audiences.\u201d But how does limiting a story to images impact its interpretation? What is lost? What is gained? And what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-stef-lenk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}