Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Presentation
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“I will tell you how I became an author and illustrator of books and how my curiosity led me to become passionate about the relationship between the image and the word in all its forms and formats.”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen. Turn your experiences into illustrated narrative sequences and share them with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hi, I'm Mariana Ruiz Johnson and I am an author and illustrator of books for boys and girls. I have published more than fifty books for all ages. Illustrated books in different formats, from cloth books, to pop-up books, even cardboard books and silent books, but the format that I explored the most is the album book format. Album books combine written text and illustrated image to generate meaning in a synergistic way. I am very interested in that format and explored it in a lot of ways. I like to draw and write since I was little and in my house there were always books around ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Fine Arts, Storyboard, Storytelling
Mariana Ruiz Johnson
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and surrounded by books, Mariana Ruiz Johnson wrote and illustrated her own stories from a young age. Shortly after graduating in painting from the Universidad Nacional de Arte, she decided to focus her images for books and started illustrating and writing exclusively for editorial work.
Currently, she works for publishing houses all over the world and works on her own creative projects, in both her own name and with other authors. She has also won two international competitions, the Premio de Álbum Ilustrado Compostela with her book “Mamá”, and the Silent Book Contest with “Mientras Duermes”.
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