Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Inking the vignettes
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Inking the vignettes
Overview
“You will see how I ink my originals and how I make decisions about value, line and fabric as I go along. ”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Inking the vignettes, 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
“Inking the vignettes Here I have all my sequence traced with a neater line and ready to ink. So let's start with the first panel. And what I will do is evaluate what line types I have to use to somehow reflect depth and space. What I will do is, I will ink the character with this one, what is the brush tip, which has the thickest line of the materials that I have here. I am doing it in sections to maintain a certain precision. Remember that to make the most delicate parts, I'm going to book and I'm going to do it with a material have a little more precision. I remember this from the look, t...”
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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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