From Botanical Drawings to Narrative Illustration

Overview

“When we illustrate a story we are also writing, filling in gaps in the text, giving new meanings or even changing the intention of it. If we think of the illustration as a text, we must also know its mechanism and find out what rhetorical resources we can use.”

In this video lesson Elizabeth Builes Carmona addresses the topic: Complete the Universe of the Text with the Images, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Botanical Drawings to Narrative Illustration. Illustrate a story by exploring nature and discover new creative paths.

Partial transcription of the video

“Completing the universe of the text with images We have done a good part of our research. We have read and appropriated the text and images that we can use will start to appear. Now we will do the bridge between the text and the image and how it works. I want to start with this premise that illustrating is also writing. As writing we can use rhetorical figures to tell something. I want to tell you some. The most well-known is the metaphor. A metaphor is images or words, whose association is hinted at in text. In this case an illustration. For example, I found this illustration by Eleni Debo...”

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Course summary for: From Botanical Drawings to Narrative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 48m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Naturalistic Illustration, Traditional illustration