Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Sketch
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Sketch
Overview
“Now that we work and select the step by step of our book we will proceed to sketch it completely in all our folding format, which being an "accordion" we will have to do it on its front and back. My suggestion is to do it with a colored pencil, not very strong, which is used to mark our guide and has the advantage of not leaving stains, which can happen if we do it with a graphite pencil. ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Sketch, 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
“Sketch In this lesson we will begin to sketch our history, for which we will need a colored pencil, the color that you want to use, and we will need our little model, the miniature model that we did previously and that we have as a guide to be able to draw our entire book. I recommend using a colored pencil because generally when using a graphite pencil at the moment, page by page, of going over the cardboard tends to stain the material a bit, so I prefer to work with materials like this, like a colored pencil, but you feel free to draw with what you feel most comfortable with. So, as you c...”
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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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