Creation of Autobiographical Graphic Novels
Blacks and cross hatching 1
A course by Marcela Trujillo Espinoza , Painter and Comic Artist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Blacks and cross hatching 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will work around the black, passage, and screen pictorial concepts, inking the black spaces in each drawing to create graphic contrasts that will add depth and drama to the comic's visuality.”
In this video lesson Marcela Trujillo Espinoza addresses the topic: Blacks and cross hatching 1, 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
“Black and achurados In this lesson we are going to ink the blacks and the achurados. That means our drawing you are going to acquire a 3D vision because the blacks are the shadow and the hatched are the grays. It will give us a more real image because it's going to have shade, it's going to have depth. The first thing I do is paint the black ones and that will also help me to create a contrast in the drawing. This is important because it helps to indicate which part is the one you want the reader to look at or which part is more important. For example, if I paint my title in black, It is di...”
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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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