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Sketch to Storytelling

🖤 Turn simple sketches into compelling stories with Albert Lim’s Sketch to Storytelling. In this 1-hour live-filmed demo, Albert guides you through visual development in black & white, showing how to expand a basic sketch into a fully realized, meaningful environment.


You’ll learn how to:

🎨 Build dramatic value and contrast to create mood and depth
🌍 Integrate cultural and reference imagery thoughtfully into your designs
⚙️ Apply efficient techniques to rapidly develop environments
📖 Infuse narrative through layout, focal points, and storytelling cues


Perfect for artists looking to strengthen world-building skills, develop concept pieces, and tell stories through dynamic environments.

🕒 Runtime: 1 hour

  • Albert Lim

    Instructor
  • Advanced

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Albert Lim

Albert Lim is a visual development and background artist in the animation industry, known for his contributions to major projects like Despicable Me 4 and his current work on background painting for Critical Role's Mighty Nein. He is passionate about crafting immersive worlds that captivate audiences. Outside of his creative work, Albert enjoys climbing, traveling, and portrait photography.

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