Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
The colorization and final assembly of the model
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: The colorization and final assembly of the model
Overview
“Next, I will use markers and rapidgraphs to be able to colorize the pages of my model. For a better color mixing with this technique, I am going to work on glossy paper. Before working on the color, it is good to think about the way the model / dummy / dummie of the book is going to be put together. Since I do not have many pages I will not be able to make a hardback mockup with spine, so I am going to use one of the mini book formats that I shared with you in the resources of unit 4. ”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: The colorization and final assembly of the model, 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
“COLOURING AND THE FINAL PREPARATION OF THE MOCK-UP In this last lesson I'll show you a previous process that I made, but I want you to see it to encourage you to create your own story. I'll show you that in addition to the eight pages or the two notebooks, I added two more pages, that is, another notebook. Why? Because I'll use it as a front cover. Then I have two pages. It could be interesting or funny as well in my creative exercise to put a legal page here, all the copyright information of a book. And here the title page. Here I continue with the story. I started here with some pencil st...”
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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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