Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Possibilities of our narration
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Possibilities of our narration
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to decide what the story is going to be and how we are going to tell it, thinking about what it would be like, possible formats and the placement of the characters. All this later I will turn it into an idea closer to the process that best suits me, the illustration in the form of a 32-page illustrated album.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Possibilities of our narration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook. Discover strategies to develop your graphic identity by learning to draw with words and to write with pictures.
Partial transcription of the video
“Narrative Options Once I've decided to do an illustrated book, it's interesting to figure out how I’m going to develop the graphic side of my project. I’m thinking a seed can grow in many ways. It can grow where it falls, getting bigger and bigger, or it’ll get carried by the wind, fall somewhere, and germinate. I’m thinking I can do a couple of outlines. What I'll do first is create a series of different scenes, I don't know how many, to get the feel of the progression of our story. I can work with four or five panels. The important part here is that you know the sequence. Our character wo...”
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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Raúl Nieto Guridi
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi
Raúl Guridi is an illustrator, author, and designer specializing in the field of children's literature and poster design for cultural campaigns for theater, dance, and puppet theater. He studied painting in the fine arts department at the University of Seville.
Raúl has published more than 70 books which have been translated in many countries such as the United States, Italy, France, and Russia. His projects have earned him multiple awards including the 2015 Spanish National Prize for best picturebook for El Rebaño, honorable mention from the judges' panel at the Bologna Children's Book Fair for the picturebook Dos Caminos, the "Serra d'Or" Premio de la Crítica award for Un pèl a la sopa (2019), and the 2021 Premio Banco del libro de Venezuela for Cómo meter una ballena en una maleta.
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