Creation of Autobiographical Graphic Novels
Inking the drawings
A course by Marcela Trujillo Espinoza , Painter and Comic Artist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Inking the drawings
Overview
“Now I will teach you how to ink the drawings of all our comic, giving you my best technical tips for working with the nib.”
In this video lesson Marcela Trujillo Espinoza addresses the topic: Inking the drawings, 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
“Inking the drawings In this lesson we are going to ink the pictures. We already have the texts, the text balloons and the bullets ready. To start, I'm going to use my thick nib, It is not that thick but it is thicker than this, because this is for achurados. If you notice, the line of the drawing is different to the line of the pictures, of the vignettes. That is why it is good to use a brush and a pen to have two types of lines. If you support the pen less, the line is thinner. If you make a mistake again, You did not like the character or you dropped the ink, do nothing because all the mi...”
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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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