How to draw an Adventure?

• You want to Design an Adventure.
• A simple, clean Adventure with a simple clean Structure.
• An Adventure which gives you the Opportunity to Improvise & let the Story unfold.
• What do you need?

Summary – How to draw an Adventure?

1. Start with a Clear Ending
   1. How is your Final Scene?
2. Draw your Opening Scene
3. Draw your Discovery Scenes
   1. Arrival in a New Environment
   2. Meeting a New Character
4. Draw your Development Scenes
   1. Arrival in a New Environment
   2. Meeting a New Character

• How do you use Framing to display the Critical elements of your Story?
• How do you Depict them?



The Final Scene

• Impressive
• The Final Scene has to be memorable.
• What’s Memorable?
• It needs to have a sense of Balance.
• And next to the end you want to Unbalance it in favor of the Characters.
  • Or against them, if you plan to eliminate them.
• You fix the Difficulty.
• You have to Use Space.
• Display the Ending.
• Show the focal Element of the Final Scene.
• The Disproportion.
• Excess is necessary.

• Memorable
• The Setting will do the work.
• Use the Setting.
• Use its Features.
• What are its Peculiarities?
• What makes it Unique?
• How do you make use of this Uniqueness?
• How do you use Creatures to enhance it?

• Loss
• How will the Story End?
• How will you represent this End?
• In most Endings the Characters face a Trial.
• The Environment is Dangerous.
• They face Threats.
• This may conclude in the Death of some Characters.
• Should a Character die?
• Which one?
• What would cause her Disappearance?

If you want to know more about how to end a Story.



The Opening Sequence

• Atmosphere
• Start with the Story’s fundamentals.
• The Colors you use will define the Story.
• And the Story’s Climate.
• Represent the Story’s Themes with Icons.
• The Shapes which will represent the Story best.

• Aperture
• The Story’s Aesthetic should be anchored in the 1st Scene.
• It is the Story’s summary.
• If an element has to be seen 1st, depict it 1st.
• The following scenes are here to support both the Opening & the Ending.
• The Opening can be the Ending.
• You can create a Cyclical Story to enhance the relationship between your Stories.
• And the relationship with the Public.

• Attachment
• The Opening should create a sense of Belonging.
• A wish to Stay.
• A wish to Return to your Story.
• Use Familiar Images.
• Evocative Images.
• Solicitate the Common visual Library to find appropriate Symbols.

If you want to know more about how to Start a Story.

Discovery Scenes

• Pace – Defining the Rhythm
• The even Scenes will serve as Discovery scenes.
• 1st Events are introduced.
• It allows the Public to discover Unknown Worlds & Stories.
• The Introduction can be Fast or Slow.

• Meeting People
• Characters will meet Characters.
• These Characters need Goals.
• They need Behavior Traits to become relatable.
• They need memorable Quirks.
  • Physical
  • Behavioral
• They can act as Support.
• Or as Opposition.

• Visiting Environments
• Where would you go on a Vacation?
• What would this place look like?
• What would it be its main Colors?
• Why would you choose this Place?
• Which Special Feature does it Present?
• Compose your Discovery Scenes with this Special Feature as the Focal Element.
• It will often be a Landmark.
• Focal Element do not have to be in the Center of the Image.
• Use Color Contrast to Enhance its presence.
• You could also make use of Shape Contrast to display it more Clearly.

• An Enjoyable Story
• The Public wants strong characters.
• Loveable Characters.
• Characters which will entertain them as the Story unfolds.
• Characters which, as they appear on screen, will make them smile.
• The same logic is applicable to Environments & Settings.

If you want to know more about creating a sense of discovery.



Development Scenes

• Incompleteness
• Discovery Scenes are Incomplete.
• This Incompleteness Allows a Follow-up.
• It introduces a Necessity to move.
  • A Necessity to Change.
• This Change is brought through Development.
• The Characters will have to research.
• They will have to explore known locations or visit new ones.
  • In order to Gather Resources.
  • To Find Information.
  • To Recruit someone.

• Pace – Adjusting the Rhythm
• A Story Develops through Action.
• All images, even representing a fixed figure, should have a sense of Movement.
• All images have a flow.
• Emphasize a Split between Crisis & Moment of Peace.
• And then gradually conjoin them.
• Block out the essential Shapes of the Story.
• And add layers of complexity.
• Bringing a Diversity of Scenes to the Public is always appreciated.
• Crisis Scenes complement Recovery Scenes.
• The Violence & the Brutality for the former.
• The Soothing & the Peace for the latter.

• Pain
• How do you Transcribe Pain in an Image?
• You can use facial Expressions.
• You can use Gestures.
• You can use Textures.
• The most effective way is to distort the Image.
• To enhance the Shape distortion use Painful Colors.
• Colors which will complement the Anomalies & Abominations.
• Colors which evoke Crisis.

If you want to know more about how to develop a World.