Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Selecting the theme
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Selecting the theme
Overview
“Here we are going to look for the theme from which we will work our entire project, which in this case is a song: “Lejanía”, by Frailejones. I have selected this song since, being a composition of mine, I can link the two areas in which I move professionally and thus study their similarities. Also its lyrics and melody give me enough lights as a starting point, and its music will serve as inspiration to find the rhythm we want to set in our folding book.”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Selecting the theme, 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
“Theme Selection Let's start this new lesson where we will select the topic that we will work on. Here we will need a support book again where we will be releasing ideas. As I had previously mentioned, I will start from a particular song, which will be the theme of a musical project of mine called frailejones. I'll leave you a link to listen to the song and get to know their music, their lyrics, and that more or less they see the similarities, the different characteristics that appear through the theme and that I will take in one way or another to place here in the project. We will start fro...”
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Course summary for: Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
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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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