Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
In search of the story and the images
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: In search of the story and the images
Overview
“In this lesson I will first think about which dies might work or which paper cuts suggest something to me. Then I'm going to let myself go through the shape of those dies to see if the image starts to appear. Let us begin!”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: In search of the story and the images, 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
“IN SEARCH OF THE TALE AND IMAGES In this last unit we'll work on our final project. I'll give you the indications, as I said previously and I'll limit your working conditions for a simple reason. It's because if you think of many options, it'll be very difficult to get a final product. For that reason, we'll only use the sequential resource, a dieline, and a non-linear resource in the narrative structure. These are the fundamental elements. It'll be a story told in eight pages. If you want, you can add text to your final exercise. But make sure it's short. They can be short suggestive texts...”
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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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