#DENSESTORYTELLING
Alley. Ink and gouache on paper.
DENSE STORYTELLING
Spend time looking deep into the picture, stay as long as you want, stay some more.
Let yourself fall into the picture and follow a timeline suspended in motion sucking you into its center.
Comic-art empowers you. You, the viewer decides how much time you spend looking at each picture. You are not forced by someone else’s pace. A still image, a drawing, a painting, a comic book gives you the power to look at the pictures as long as you want. You can flicker through the pages, you can walk past the painting, you can stay for hours diving into a specific frame or part of a picture.
You are the endlessness of a snapshot; the gutter between and inside the sequences where time happens. Dense storytelling is to experiment with timelines and how they can be used and understood in comic-art.
A dense storytelling approach is to experience empathy with and from the picture. It forces you to follow non-linear and parallel threads of stories going on at the same time. Dense storytelling materializes visual instantaneousness, to show and tell kaleidoscopically without losing the agency of the viewer. You are free, you are part of the creating process.
And that is what is the core of graphic noveling through dense storytelling.
Dense storytelling is an experiment of how to create comics through a visual density of pictures to show the (everyday) life in all its complexities and paradoxes.
Dense storytelling is a way of experimenting with timelines and how they can be used and understood in comic art. The label and aesthetic approach are to create empathy with pictures. It forces the viewer to follow non-linear and often parallel threads of stories going on at the same time. Dense storytelling is a way to materialize a visual instantaneousness and to show and tell something kaleidoscopically.
#densestorytelling
End This Stupid Culture Now. Ink, brush pen, fineliners, color pens on paper.