Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

How does our story begin?

A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer

Illustrator, Author, and Designer. Sevilla, Spain.
Joined February 2015
97% positive reviews (118)
3,093 students
Audio: Spanish, English
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About the video: How does our story begin?

Overview

“In this lesson we are going to decide where we start from, what is the first thing that will happen and how we will capture the attention of the public so that they do not decide to abandon the story. We will see how we can use the title page or the covers as part of the narrative.”

In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: How does our story begin?, 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

“How Does Our Story Begin? In this lesson, we'll talk about the importance of the cover, the back cover, and everything surrounding the content of your book. I'll show you some examples of my books where the cover is key. In this case, I have the book "If I Were a Big Giant." If you can see, the idea was to use someone that was so gigantic, so massive, that they would overflow the original cover format. That way, we'd have a more detailed idea of what the content looks like. To me, covers are like the soul of the book. It's like the first impression you get from the book. More than telling o...”

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Course summary for: Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

  • Level: Beginner
  • 97% positive reviews (118)
  • 3093 students
  • 5 units
  • 15 lessons (2h 17m)
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    Illustration
  • Areas

    Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Raúl Nieto Guridi

Raúl Nieto Guridi
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi

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Illustrator, Author, and Designer

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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Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook. Illustration course by Raúl Nieto Guridi

Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook

A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi
Illustrator, Author, and Designer. Sevilla, Spain.
Joined February 2015
  • 97% positive reviews (118)
  • 3,093 students