Expressive Illustration Line by Line
Composition
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Composition
Overview
“In this lesson, we will see what composition is, its basic principles and why it is so important to make your illustrations exciting.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: Composition, 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
“Composition In this lesson we will see what composition is and what is it for. Sometimes it is not enough that in an image they appear all the necessary elements to be able to read it. This image can leave us cold, it can be not very expressive. To get a picture that really expresses the background of the narrative, composition is a tool of the first order. What is composition? Composition is the way in which we organize the elements that appear in the image, in the plane that we will use. Maybe 95% of the images that are created they have a quadrangular format. This marks us the horizontal...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration Line by Line
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Category
Illustration -
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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