Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
materials
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: materials
Overview
“In my experience as an illustrator and book creator I have worked with many techniques: watercolors, inks, graphite and color pencils, dry and greasy pastels, digital painting, and thus, over time I have learned and found the advantages and disadvantages of every one of them. For our project I have selected acrylic for its expression and artistic result, its texture, the union that is achieved when mixing colors and especially the unexpected results that can happen when working in a free and purposeful way. But remember that you can use the material that you like the most! ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: materials, 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
“materials In this lesson we will review the materials that we will use in the course. These are a travel book or a sketchbook, that we saw earlier. Acrylic brushes of different sizes. Acrylics. I regularly use this brand, which is Winsor Newton, it works very well, it gives me enough texture I am looking for a project. The colors are very lively pigment, I recommend using them. A nib. A pointed marker that simulates a brush. A container for water. Absorbent paper. A palette for our acrylics. It is a plastic pallet, it can also be a wooden pallet. A colored pencil, which we have here. It wil...”
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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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