Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
Materials
A course by Alfredo Cáceres , Editorial illustrator
Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch
- Best seller Spanish with subtitles in English
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- 5647 students
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you what materials I use in my illustrations. The idea is that you look for the ones that best suit you and the advice that I will give you below will serve you.”
In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: Materials, 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
“Materials In this lesson I'll show you the materials that I use for my illustrations. We'll start with the paper. What paper do I use? I generally use Canson Heritage. What's great about it? Firstly, it's not the most expensive; therefore, mistakes won't cost you that much. It's a 300-gram, acid-free paper, which means it won't turn yellow in the sun. The weight affects the amount of water it can handle. If you use a light-weight paper and add a lot of water, the paper will warp. For me, any paper less than 300 grams is useful for practicing and learning. As I said, for this course, I'll us...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
A course by Alfredo Cáceres
Alfredo Cáceres is an editorial illustrator who specializes in editorial illustration and animation projects.
He started working in 2008 in the newspaper El Mercurio as an illustrator for six years. Since then, he has worked as a freelancer for the newspaper La Tercera, he has written and illustrated two album books published by SM Chile (Los Intrusos y Los Visitantes), book covers for Alfaguara Spain, and now he is writing and illustrating a graphic novel in his spare time.
Alfredo has developed a somewhat dark, magical, and mysterious style, based on his youth in the south of Chile (Valdivia) using the typical wooden houses, the moss, and the rain as characters.
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- 12 lessons (1h 30m)
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- Audio: Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
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