Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic
Compose and draw
A course by Sol Díaz Castillo , Artist and Illustrator
Joined June 2020
About the video: Compose and draw
Overview
“Having treated the subjects and action, now we will begin to narrate through the drawings and everything that we can represent with them: the symbolic, the positions, the expressions, the points of view, contexts, etc. They will be the first visualizations in which we will show our characters in action, so we will do them freely using pencil lead.”
In this video lesson Sol Díaz Castillo addresses the topic: Compose and draw, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic. Explore your inner world to create and share illustrated stories ranging from the personal to the universal.
Partial transcription of the video
“Compose and draw When I grow up I want to have a mustache, like you I die... In this lesson we will see how the image behaves in relation to the text and start seeing how our webcomic behaves. In this part we are going to use the same sketches related to how we start managing the script, that is related to this central idea, and we will put the image as well. We are going to stay with a guide that we will be able to develop in a more secure way at the time of drawing with ink and with the materials that we use. So let's start with the feeling, the emotion, what is this permanent resource th...”
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Course summary for: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing

Sol Díaz Castillo
A course by Sol Díaz Castillo
Sol Díaz started studying graphic design but her professional life led her to drawing and illustration shortly after, along with her personal approach to understanding and transforming the world around her. When she finished university, she published her first creations, and now, she has almost fifteen books published in her name, with characters that go from humor to fantasy, always with an observant eye.
She has also done illustration work for editorials with different authors and has explored areas such as animation, live drawing with music, magazine editing, podcast creation, and more. For Sol, drawing is a tool to tell stories and build characters that reflect your ideas, fears, convictions, and perspective on the world around you.
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