Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
Experimenting with plastic and compositional elements
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Experimenting with plastic and compositional elements
Overview
“Remember that when we talk about the plastic in an image we refer to all those artistic, pictorial elements that we can perceive at first sight. In this lesson I am going to experiment with color and compositional elements. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: Experimenting with plastic and compositional elements, 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
“EXPERIMENTING WITH VISUAL AND COMPOSITION ELEMENTS Up to now, we've looked at how to use some of the resources we've seen. I've done up some lists, lists are very useful because they help you to draw associations, connections, similarities. You can do these lists with words or images that give you metaphors, for example. In this lesson, we'll work on the visual elements and composition elements. I'll use colour as a visual resource, as a common theme. I'll also risk using composition elements, the shots, to see what new story can come out of Little Red Riding Hood. When you see my thought p...”
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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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