Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
The space: narrative of history
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: The space: narrative of history
Overview
“Next, we are going to see where everything will happen, what path each character will have and how they will relate to the protagonist, how they move, in what space ... We will also decide what conflict our protagonist has and how he will solve it: problem-solution-catharsis .”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: The space: narrative of history, 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
“Space: Storytelling In this lesson, we'll develop the space where our characters will be. We'll see how they relate to each other within the framing, composition, and the relationship between the different elements in our space. The characters in my project relate to their environment in a very particular way. The space a character occupies is as important as the space from which they're absent. That unoccupied space is important to get the reader to participate and turn into some kind of voyeur who becomes part of the story, in a way. Forcing that space to the left or to the right, we can ...”
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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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