Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Characters
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Characters
Overview
“In this lesson we will work in the search of our central character, and secondary characters. We will make sketches and we will see several options to find the indicated actor or actors. For this we will base ourselves on the chosen song, on the type of story that is being narrated, so we will launch ideas, the ones that we can the most, that way we will not stay with the first thing that comes to our mind, although later we have to revisit the First options will always be better to have more to choose from. ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Characters, 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
“Characters And well, we will start a new lesson now, where we will study the characters we need for our project. Something of vital importance for which I have this book at hand here, that we already saw in my influences, it is just "Asterix the Gaul". And who wanted to show it in this lesson to be able to see the importance of its characters. As we all know, if we know these stories, the main character is this, Asterix, but there are a number of other characters that appear throughout this saga. Each one has specific characteristics, I don't always fall in love with the main character, but...”
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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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