Introduction to Picturebook Creation
What will we do in the course?
A course by Ricard López Iglesias , Painter and illustrator
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“We will dedicate this lesson to delving into the world of the illustrated album, explaining what it is and why it is so important to me. To carry out the final project of this course, we will start from the simulation of a professional commission, where the client will give us three possible stories to choose from so that we can make the illustrations of one of them.”
In this video lesson Ricard López Iglesias addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Picturebook Creation. Learn how to combine illustration with text to create unique stories by applying manual and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? We will see the final project that we will do in the course. For this, it is very important to know how to differentiate between the illustrated album and the story, since they are very different but they are alike in some ways. The main difference is that in the illustrated story the text is of the utmost importance. From the text we work the illustrations. In the picture book the illustrations do not work without the text and at the same time the text does not work without the illustrations. For the final project we will start from a custom simulation where ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Picturebook Creation
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Ricard López Iglesias
A course by Ricard López Iglesias
Ricard—aka Ricardilus—López’s passion for drawing started when he was three years old, always surrounded by pencils, paints, and sketchbooks, although his vocational calling for illustration started at the age of sixteen when he began his art studies.
He started with Fine Art studies for one year, which he later changed for Higher Level studies in Animation and 3D at EASD Pau Gargallo, in Barcelona, Spain, as he always loved the idea of bringing his drawings to life. During that time, he also took several illustration courses and completed his studies with a short animated film (La Folie), for which he was selected and rewarded by many renowned competitions. He then studied Graphic Arts at the Escuela Joso in Barcelona and graduated in 2017. Currently, he devotes all his professional energy into illustration, alternating many different types of projects that all relate to art in some shape or form.
His illustrations are usually based on the female figure, although he strongly believes that a good illustrator should never stay within a particular style, and is always looking for new areas and techniques to learn and include in his work. This has secured a long list of major clients for Ricard, including Penguin Random House, Planeta, TSL Jewellery (Hong Kong), Joyería Suárez, SofarSounds, or the National Art Museum of Cataluña (MNAC), in Barcelona, Spain.
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