Experimental Drawing Techniques for Picturebooks
Final Vignettes
A course by Fátima Ordinola , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Final Vignettes
Overview
“Finally, I will teach you how to prepare the final material on which you will make the illustrations selected from the vignettes above. I will show you the paper I recommend to use, the guide marks with pencils to sketch the lines of the vignettes on the paper, the format of the vignettes, how to paint the character (s) and the scene.”
In this video lesson Fátima Ordinola addresses the topic: Final Vignettes, 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
“Final bullets In this lesson, I will begin to draw one of the vignettes for the final project. I will draw the first bullet and for that I will be guided by the sketches that we made previously. I will start to paint the atmosphere and then I will include in the characters. I will do all the floor part of the vignette. On that I will work the characters. First I do it in layers to add the loudest tones and details with the pencil. In the sketch I had worked an image where only I appear, so i will try to make it similar to the sketch, but if another idea arises on the way it is welcome becau...”
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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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