Introduction to Picturebook Creation
Preparing the canvas
A course by Ricard López Iglesias , Painter and illustrator
About the video: Preparing the canvas
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to create a canvas that is completely ready to go. I will talk about concepts such as format, color mode, resolution, bleeds, etc. We will finish the lesson with a blank canvas to start painting on.”
In this video lesson Ricard López Iglesias addresses the topic: Preparing the canvas, 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
“Preparing the canvas In this lesson you will learn how to create a totally ready canvas to work on your illustrated album. We will see concepts such as resolution, color mode, guides, and so on. Go for it. The first thing we will do to create our canvas is open Photoshop, which is the one we will work with, and basically we will create a new file with the characteristics you asked for our client, in this case, this editor commissioned by an illustrated album. So we will go to File, New and here we create our new file. Here we will give you the size, resolution, color type. So first we go to...”
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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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