Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Presentation of materials and techniques
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Presentation of materials and techniques
Overview
“I will show you the materials that I use to work and their different characteristics. ”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Presentation of materials and techniques, 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 of materials Now I will introduce you to the materials that we will use for this course. They are all materials very easy to transport in your backpack, in your purse, You can use them in very tight spaces. They are materials that have different types of stroke and that modulated traces and more mechanical traces can be generated. I'll start with the paper first. This is a paper called Fabriano 4. It comes in different sizes. I buy it in A3 and I split it in half, generally, to work in A4 format. It is a paper that comes in two textures: it can be smooth or rough. I like the ro...”
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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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