Experimental Drawing Techniques for Picturebooks
Vignette Digitization
A course by Fátima Ordinola , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Vignette Digitization
Overview
“Now, I will show you the steps I take to digitize the illustrations and be able to use it in web format. You will learn how to carry out some details with the help of Photoshop, in addition, I will give you some tips so that you can put it on your social networks without losing its quality.”
In this video lesson Fátima Ordinola addresses the topic: Vignette Digitization, 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
“Vignette digitization In this lesson I will show you the steps that I follow to digitize the illustrations and share them on networks. This is one of the illustrations, it is the last illustration, so the process I will do is the same for the others. I'll dim the lights a bit from the Layers window. With Levels I will raise the darkness a little so that the part of the cave stands out more and give it a little more light there. I can have the illustration on hand to guide the color. Here I see that the warm colors they have come out very strong, very busted, so I'll lower the hue and satura...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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