Expressive Illustration Line by Line
Our History at a Glance
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Our History at a Glance
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you how you can face a personal project, how to find inspiration, and organize your work from a storyboard. This will help you visualize the internal rhythm of the book and allow you to show your proposal to a client before starting with the final art.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: Our History at a Glance, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration Line by Line. Create illustrated picturebooks for kids (and adults) with evocative scenes made using colored pencils and pastels.
Partial transcription of the video
“Our history at a glance In this lesson I will teach you how to work your own story. The main thing we need is an idea, a global idea. It is not necessary to have all the text well written to start drawing. In fact, it is better to work text and image at the same time. The idea of an illustrated album is that everything that appears on each page is indispensable. That the text cannot be separated on one side and the image for the other without breaking the meaning. They have to be well interlocked to function as a unit. We will start by thinking about what the topic is. By theme I do not mea...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration Line by Line
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Daniel Torrent Riba
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba
Dani Torrent is an illustrator, painter, and also a writer. He lives in Barcelona and has more than ten years' experience illustrating picture books, many of them self-authored. He studied film directing and that knowledge is reflected in the structure, pace, and composition of his creations, which embody the essence of a short film.
He has created illustrations for media outlets and advertising, but he is most well known for his creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature. He has worked for Spanish publishing companies such as Edelvives, Kalandraka, Alfaguara, Cal.lígraf and Comanegra, but his artistic work has had a much greater impact on his career and led him to be a renowned illustrator. He has also published his work in France, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, China, Korea, and the United States.
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