Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
The importance of character 2
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: The importance of character 2
Overview
“We continue to work on the characters in our story. Now comes the time for the secondary.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: The importance of character 2, 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 Characters Time to talk about our supporting characters. The selection process for my supporting cast is a massive affair that requires drawing a great variety of characters that could be a part of the story, insect characters and otherwise. In this specific case, we just need some more bugs. Gul is only going to interact with and be helped by bugs. So I'm going to draw some of them. Beetles go first. They're more closely related to the seed world. They keep closer to the ground. They’re the ones who transport them. From time to time, the seeds stick to their shells. ...”
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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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