Expressive Illustration Line by Line
Composition through Cinema
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Composition through Cinema
Overview
“In this lesson, following the cinematographic example, you will learn the importance of the point of view. You will see how our relationship with the characters changes depending on the distance from which we observe them and the relationship of superiority or inferiority that we establish with them.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: Composition through Cinema, 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 through cinema In this lesson you will learn how to compose an image with cinematographic strategies. If in the previous lesson we saw how in a theater the important thing is the established relationships between the elements and the background, between the characters and between them, now we go to the movies. In the cinema, the spectator, although still in his seat, gets on the scene. The camera enters the space where the characters are, it gets on top of them, under them, between them. If in theater strategies we saw the importance of relationships, now we will see the importa...”
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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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