Experimental Drawing Techniques for Picturebooks
Creation of Narrative Sequence
A course by Fátima Ordinola , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Creation of Narrative Sequence
Overview
“You will learn how to compose the possible scenes of your narrative sequence, in addition, I will teach you how to choose different approaches and shots. You will see how to test different scenes in the panels with quick and small drawings without looking for perfection.”
In this video lesson Fátima Ordinola addresses the topic: Creation of Narrative Sequence, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Drawing Techniques for Picturebooks. Learn illustration, design, and narrative techniques to tell a story based on your childhood memories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating a narrative sequence Now we will start to do the narrative sequence. With everything we've already reviewed about this story, the notes I have and what I have observed, the theme of what I want to tell I feel that it goes on the side of nature, like the connection I have with nature being small. So I feel that the vignette or the illustration it can become more horizontal, more landscape. I'll start doing the sketches. They must not be perfect, we can be as messy as we want, is to get an idea of what we want to tell. We can make a minimum of five vignettes so that later we can choo...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Drawing Techniques for Picturebooks
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Design, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Fátima Ordinola
A course by Fátima Ordinola
Fátima Ordinola works at the design studio Icono Comunicadores in Peru and has created picturebooks for both children and adults. She has published books with the publisher Panamericana and has spoken at the Salón de Ilustración Imagen Palabra in Peru (2018), the Lima International Illustration Conference – Imaquinario (2018), and the Lima International Book Fair (2019).
Fátima tries to write her books in such a way that each page and illustration invite the reader into an intimate and authentic space. She draws on personal photos and objects from her family for inspiration and approaches to storytelling which she then uses to fill the blank page.
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