Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how to make a sketch leaving the details aside.”

In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: Crafting an idea, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper. Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“Crafting an idea In this lesson we'll work on an idea based on a text. I'll illustrate the story "The Black Sheep" by Italo Calvino, the writer I told you about at the beginning. I chose it for the amount of images and characters it has and, to begin, I'll read an excerpt from the story which we'll be working on. There was once a country where everyone was a thief. At night each inhabitant went out armed with a crowbar and a lantern, and broke into a neighbor's house. On returning at dawn, loaded down with booty, he'd find that his house had been burgled as well. And so everyone lived in ha...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper

• Level: Beginner
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• 6007 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 30m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting