Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
The colorization and final assembly of the model
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: 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
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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