Short Courses Financing Training (100%)

Comics — Sustainable Visual Narratives

The course proposes the creation of visual narratives in comics, exploring traditional and digital techniques with a focus on the valorisation of water and environmental sustainability.

Unleash your creativity with this comics course, combining traditional and digital techniques. Explore striking visual narratives, develop characters, textures, proportions and individual perspectives. Inspired by sustainability, the course promotes the appreciation of water and natural resources, helping you to create original stories with an environmental purpose and artistic sensibility.

Profile

Credits ECTS: 3 Credits
Duration: 24 hours
Date: 03 — 24 feb 2025
Working hours: 2pm to 6pm
Format: In person
Language: Portuguese
Vacancies: 14 – 20
Sessions: 3, 6, 10, 13, 17 e 24 (feb)

Skills

Use different drawing media, materials and supports, both analogue and digital, to create comic strips that convey messages of sustainability and environmental awareness.
Apply drawing and digital illustration techniques, using tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Krita, to produce works that value the preservation of the environment and natural resources.
Design expressive characters that are aligned with impactful visual narratives, capable of sensitising others to issues such as ocean protection and sustainable water management.
Create cohesive and engaging visual narratives, using storytelling techniques specific to comics and which promote the appreciation of water - ocean and river resources.
Apply line typologies and graphic registers appropriate to the style and genre of the comic strip.
Apply technical knowledge of space, perspective, dimension and proportion to develop scenes and visual sequences that emphasise harmony and the importance of preserving the environment.
Integrate textures and stains to add depth and realism to illustrations.
Create imaginative memory drawings that contribute to the idealisation of original stories through the exploration of themes such as sustainability and environmental preservation.

Lecturers

A professional and qualified teaching staff guarantees excellence.

Sandro Delgado

Year 2024-2025

Fees

Scholarship 100% Blue Design Alliance: € 204,40
Enrolment: € 20,40
Fees: € 180,00
Insurance: € 4,00

The Blue Design Alliance Scholarship includes registration, insurance and tuition fees.

Scholarships

Blue Design Alliance

This initiative offers scholarships for Professional Higher Technical Courses (CTesP), taught at ESAD, and Postgraduate Courses. All the courses are practically orientated and allow you to pursue a professional career, where the theme of water will always be present, as well as caring for the ecosystems of rivers, seas and oceans.