Expressive Illustration Line by Line
Composition through Painting
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Composition through Painting
Overview
“Now we are going to see the importance of structures, weights and lines in the organization of the composition so that its perception adapts to the story we are narrating.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: Composition through Painting, 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 painting In this lesson we will learn how to compose an image through pictorial strategies. In the drama lesson, we saw the importance of relationships. In film, we saw the importance of point of view, but until now we always work on the composition as if it had a real depth, an optical depth, and we have forgotten to value the composition as a plane in which we put elements. We saw that we were working in normally home run compositions because they refer us to verticality and horizontality. All this in relation to the force of gravity, which is what governs our lives in...”
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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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