Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Detonating
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Detonating
Overview
“In this lesson we will look for the idea that serves as a starting point, that is, the trigger to start our story. We will review how it comes to us or where we can take it, so we can have a guide that will help us to create our final project. I will also show you some of my travel notebooks or sketchbooks, which I try to take everywhere and which are full of characters, places, song fragments, color mixes, etc.”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Detonating, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book. Create a music-based story and learn how to use illustration as a narrative tool for your book.
Partial transcription of the video
“Detonating Let's start Unit 2 of our course. To start with the first lesson, let's review the trigger for the project. What is that? Well the main idea that we will need to be able to advance with all the story we want to tell. For this we will use a fundamental tool to my way of seeing, which is what we have here, a travel notebook or a sketchbook. I will start it here in this course. As you can see, it is completely empty. It will also serve as a log or as a diary of our project. Now I would like to show you one of my notebooks, I have many, where I go releasing ideas, notes, sketches, th...”
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Course summary for: Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
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Category
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Areas
Bookbinding, Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Traditional illustration

Roger Ycaza
A course by Roger Ycaza
Roger Ycaza is an illustrator, musician, and writer of his own stories. He has worked in various fields of illustration but the one he is most passionate about and where he has the most experience is in children's and young adults' literature, an area in which he has been working for nearly twenty years.
As time went by, he realized that he could connect his passion for music and illustration, professions he learned on a self-taught basis. Roger is always experimenting, something that is reflected in his work. He is author or co-author for publishing houses such as Fondo de Cultura Económica, Océano Travesía, Panamericana, Loqueleo, SM, Castillo, Pato Lógico, El Naranjo, Amanuense, Editora Do Brasil, GatoMalo, among others.
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