Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
The importance of character 1
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: The importance of character 1
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to decide who or who are going to star in my project, how and how many there will be, what peculiarities they will have and how they will influence our protagonist.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: The importance of character 1, 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
“The Importance of your Character In this lesson, we’ll learn why characters are so important and how to design them so you can create a much more powerful story. My character is an alter ego. I like to know how they think, what their life is like. I’ll picture them in different situations, in all these possible different lives. You need to really know your characters, let them be a part of you and tell your truth. Sometimes, I’ll make these faceless characters or characters with blurred faces. I’m interested in the whole, in their presence. And then, sometimes, I’ll make these really expres...”
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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
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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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