Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Telling stories through the functional. Part 2
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Telling stories through the functional. Part 2
Overview
“Here I continue to explain the functional elements of a story.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Telling stories through the functional. Part 2, 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 FUNCTIONAL I'll continue now with the third voice. "I was at home on my own again. It's so boring. Then mummy said that it was time for our walk. There was a friendly dog in the park and Victoria was having a great time. I wish I was". Like in the pages of the mother's voice, the images are enclosed in a frame, like in a vignette. Everything is very square, especially in Charles' world. He looks out the window which is met with a limit, the edge of the illustration. Does his position tell you anything? Now, the typography, in addition to the texts, and, of course...”
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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

Paula Bossio
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, and children's book author who is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them... but above all, creating them. She has won national and international awards for her illustrations, including the Nami Award (Korea), the Noma Concours (Japan), and the A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem awards (Mexico), among others.
She has worked as an author and illustrator for publishers such as Penguin Random House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, and more, and has also worked as an illustration teacher in the Graphic Design Faculty of Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Areandina, and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá.
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