Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
What will we do in this course?
A course by user29750 surname29750 , Editorial illustrator
Joined April 2010
Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch
Joined April 2010
About the video: What will we do in this course?
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to show you that an illustration can be based on a story, a phrase, a word and even an idea without text.”
In this video lesson user29750 surname29750 addresses the topic: What will we do in this course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper. Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? In this lesson I'll talk about what we'll do in the course. We will illustrate a story. I chose a story by Italo Calvino, "The Black Sheep". And I'll show how I transform an idea into sketches, then drawings, and then the final touches that I do with fineliners. Here is an example of the story "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, from the sketch to the final work. I start with very simple ideas with drawings that you would think are ugly or bad, but they work for me. Then, with the type of characters and how they will be placed, I arrive at a clearer idea of wh...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by user29750 surname29750
Alfredo Cáceres is an editorial illustrator who specializes in editorial illustration and animation projects.
He started working in 2008 in the newspaper El Mercurio as an illustrator for six years. Since then, he has worked as a freelancer for the newspaper La Tercera, he has written and illustrated two album books published by SM Chile (Los Intrusos y Los Visitantes), book covers for Alfaguara Spain, and now he is writing and illustrating a graphic novel in his spare time.
Alfredo has developed a somewhat dark, magical, and mysterious style, based on his youth in the south of Chile (Valdivia) using the typical wooden houses, the moss, and the rain as characters.
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