Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling stories through the visual
A course by Paula Bossio , Children’s Books Author & Illustrator
Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories
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About the video: Telling stories through the visual
Overview
“Visual elements are the first symbolic signs of an image. Artistic decisions are closely related to what you are going to tell and it will be important to define, for example, which techniques, color palettes and / or perspectives will be most relevant. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling stories through the visual, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories. Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“TELLING STORIES THROUGH THE VISUAL This is one of my favourite units because we'll just focus on the image. The image has four components that I consider really important. We'll dissect them step by step for you to understand the levels of meaning that they can hold. It's important to understand that the image is not only a decorative element, but it's also a language that is very strong, complex, and that can communicate in very deep ways. We'll specifically discuss the visual elements of the image. These visual elements are the first artistic contact that we'll have with our reader. Join ...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, author of children's books and teacher. She is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them, but above all, creating them. For this reason, in recent years she has devoted herself to the study of the image as a narrative tool.
She has worked as an author and illustrator in publishers such as Penguin Randon House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, among others, and has also worked as an illustration teacher at the Faculty of Graphic Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Universidad Areandina and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá (Colombia).
In addition, she has received national and international awards for her illustrations: in Japan (Noma Concours), in India (Katha Chitrakala Award), in Mexico (A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem Award), in Colombia (Ministerio de Cultura y Fundalectura), in Italy (Silent Books), and in Korea (Nami Award).
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- 20 lessons (4h 11m)
- 29 additional resources (15 files)
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- Level: Beginner
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