Creation of Autobiographical Graphic Novels
Technique approach exercises 2
A course by Marcela Trujillo Espinoza , Painter and Comic Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Technique approach exercises 2
Overview
“Here I show you more hatching techniques and using the brush to ink letters. We will also see different types of balloons.”
In this video lesson Marcela Trujillo Espinoza addresses the topic: Technique approach exercises 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Autobiographical Graphic Novels. Learn to transform a personal memory into appealing vignettes with India ink, a pen, and a brush.
Partial transcription of the video
“Technique approach exercises. There are some artists who do another type of hatching. For example, we are going to make a circle. We will leave this middle circle blank. At the university they made me copy a model of a cow's head, it was like the skull, on a paper the size of this table and all done with nib and hatching. We had to do some long lines that we couldn't finish and we were a month making a drawing, it was a bit tortuous, but there is something that happens when one achura, it's like meditation, like one is in a trance because one has to focus on the present, because all this de...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Autobiographical Graphic Novels
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storyboard, Traditional illustration, Writing

Marcela Trujillo Espinoza
A course by Marcela Trujillo Espinoza
Marcela Trujillo, better known as Maliki for her comic character Maliki 4 ojos, graduated from the University of Chile where she studied art with a minor in painting. She has made a career for herself as a comic artist and professional painter.
Over the course of her career, her work has appeared in individual painting exhibits in museums and galleries and she has published 7 autobiographical graphic novels with publishers like Ocho Libros, Planeta, and Reservoir books. She also works as a university professor teaching comics, drawing, and painting and is the co-creator of the La Polola podcast about feminist comics with artist Sol Díaz.
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