Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Storyboard and sketch
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Storyboard and sketch
Overview
“I will tell you why the storyboard method is the simplest and most dynamic to plan our narrative sequence. ”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Storyboard and sketch, 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
“Storyboard and sketch I already have my script and I have my character. Now what I have to do is generate a small "storyboard" so I can plan what my sequence will be like. So the first thing I'll do is a little sketchy sketch of the four vignettes together. And I will do it in a super schematic way. I will divide into four, above I will have the title. And I will plan a little how the sequence will be. I imagine that in the first panel, in which the text says: "One afternoon I was walking and something on the ground caught my attention", I will put the character walking. The text will go be...”
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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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