Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Composition
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Composition
Overview
“In this lesson we will do some image composition and narration exercises, which will help us to better visualize the rhythm and sequence that we will need throughout our history. It must be taken into account that having selected a folding type "accordion" we can count from page to page and from a whole, that we can see when displaying our format, front and back, which makes it more attractive and dynamic, and where we can get more readings. ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Composition, 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
“Composition Now we will continue with a new lesson that closes this unit, where we will see image composition, for which I have brought another example of a book. It is called "The stages of the day" and it is a book that commemorates 50 years of the "Aguascalientes" poetry prize. It is a book published in Mexico by the Fondo de Cultura Económica and I found it interesting to show it here because it brings together several voices of illustrators that bring together several voices of poets, all winners of this award. In fact, already from the cover we can see an image of the Mexican illustra...”
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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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