Drawing Storyboards for the Entertainment Industry in Photoshop
Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to set up a Photoshop document for a set of sequential images before creating thumbnails of our screenplay for director approval. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
What you'll learn
Throughout these lessons, we'll learn how to set up a Photoshop document for a set of sequential images before creating thumbnails of our screenplay for director approval. We'll learn some of the technical jargon used in the film industry related to different types of camera shots and how to set up our perspective for each of those angles. We'll cover basic poses used most frequently in storyboarding: walking, standing, and sitting as well as some action poses. We'll take a storyboard frame through to it's conclusion, finessing the drawing and adding some shading for mood and suggested lighting. By the end of the tutorial, you should have a clear understanding of how storyboards are created. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
Table of contents
- Setting up the Photoshop Document 12m
- Choosing Content for Storyboard Frames 7m
- Setting up the Establishing Shot 10m
- Introducing Characters 10m
- Exploring Drawing Dialogue 8m
- Discussing Crossing-the-line 8m
- Creating a Low Angle Shot 10m
- Explaining Action with Arrows 11m
- Exploring Standing Poses 11m
- Creating Simple Walking Poses 11m
- Drawing Simple Sitting Poses 11m
- Exploring More Poses 9m
- Inking a Storyboard 10m
- Continuing to Ink 7m
- Shading a Storyboard 9m
- Reviewing Our Storyboard Project 9m
About the author
Alex Stead is a freelance storyboard artist and concept illustrator working in London. He began his career storyboarding for the BBC, and after a while spread his wings into the wider fields of games, music video, advertising, publishing and experiential marketing. He works for some of the biggest and smallest creative and production agencies in London, producing everything from book covers to character designs to concepts for flagship retail stores. In his spare time, he is writing and illustra... more