Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Color and its narrative power 1
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Color and its narrative power 1
Overview
“I will show you how I assemble my reduced palettes and what my process is like when coloring a sequence. ”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Color and its narrative power 1, 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
“Color and its narrative power Now we have to get into the universe of color. So the first thing I will do is explain some tips so you can create your limited palettes and then we'll color the story. Before I start painting, I would like us to do a review and let's clarify a couple of concepts about color and the chromatic circle. I will explain a very simple way to generate your own palettes and to put together a coloring system so that your sequences are super coherent and aesthetic and powerful at the paddle level. Here we have a chromatic circle. These can be downloaded from the internet...”
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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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