Creation of an Illustrated Foldable Book
Typography
A course by Roger Ycaza , Illustrator and musician
About the video: Typography
Overview
“Now that we have completely painted our book, on the front and back, we will look for the appropriate typeface for its cover, the title of our work, and that we will also work manually. We could look for fonts that we have loaded on our computer, it is totally valid, but in this case we are going to try to make the final result as organic and personal as possible. So, we will test several options and select the one that best suits the theme we have been working on. ”
In this video lesson Roger Ycaza addresses the topic: Typography, 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
“Typography We have our final project ready. It is completely painted, as we have seen, on both sides, front and back. We have worked hard to reach that result. Now what we will do is an additional exercise, which is precisely to work on the typography of the title and the author's name, your name. I will use the same tools that we used before, which are the brushes, the acrylic colors we decided to use. Something that I want to emphasize here and that is very important is that that is definitely not my forte, but even so, I think that making your own typeface makes it connect better with th...”
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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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