Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Setting
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Setting
Overview
“In this lesson we will work in the search for the environment that best fits our history, our characters and the format of our book. Sea, sky, land, forest, city, animal world, etc. Once again we will have to go back and review what is told in our song and how we want to tell it, where we want to take it graphically. ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Setting, 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
“Setting Now we will start with a new lesson in which we will do a brief study of the setting, something that will also be very necessary to carry out our project. I have brought a sample book before moving on to our graphic exercises. This is what we see here, "Dorothy. Let him in", by the Spanish authors Javier Sáez Castán and Pablo Auladell. They are great illustrators who are internationally recognized who decided to join for this book. Here is a detail that I would like to comment on. Javier Sáez is recognized as an illustrator, but he also writes a lot of his own stories and in this ca...”
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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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