Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
Color and its narrative power 2
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: Color and its narrative power 2
Overview
“Here you will learn more about the decisions I make when coloring my projects. Remember that color is only an accessory.”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: Color and its narrative power 2, 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 We already have the well defined color boxes, if they are going to serve as a guide to be able to make color decisions and coloring the character, for example. For my character's shirt I'm going to choose a blue shade maybe not the most saturated of all, but quite saturated. Let's see how this one works, for example. I color with a Wacom, and, in this case, since I don't have so many elements to color, I am coloring with the pencil as if it were a marker or a fiber, that sometimes is a bit off the record And I don't think that is wrong. In this case I am workin...”
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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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