Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
What Is a Narrative Illustration?
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: What Is a Narrative Illustration?
Overview
“I will tell you what characteristics define an illustration as a narrative illustration. You will see the variety of narrative illustrations that there are, I will show you some illustrated books where you can clearly identify this type of illustration and you will analyze how its authors use certain resources to accentuate the narrative. ”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: What Is a Narrative Illustration?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques. Create an illustrated story full of life with a unique style that combines multiple techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“What's a Narrative Illustration? In this unit, we're going over the features and building blocks of narrative illustration. A narrative illustration piece is one that tells us or elaborates on a specific action, one that conveys a feeling. The illustration we're creating can be a piece of great storytelling and poetry or we could also create an illustration that will just elaborate on a specific action. It'll all depend on the prominence we want for our illustration, for the story we want to tell. To create a piece of narrative illustration, you need to avoid an illustration that's static o...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Cecilia Varela
A course by Cecilia Varela
Cecilia Varela is a Córdoba-based (Argentina) illustrator and author of several children's books. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be an illustrator, a dream that grew out of her passion for children's books and stories. She studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts and specialized in drawing and painting.
She won first prize at the Mexican Illustrators Contest in 2007 and has since then collaborated with different publishers in Mexico and Spain, like Edelvives and Alfaguara. Cecilia creates her artwork by hand and then digitizes it for publishing. She uses a wide variety of techniques in her work, but most often creates with acrylics, gouache, collage, and colored pencils.
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