Overcoming Creative Blocks: Form Ideas in a Sketchbook
Reading code
A course by Raúl Nieto Guridi , Illustrator, Author, and Designer
About the video: Reading code
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to study the different expressive possibilities of our project depending on who it was directed to: age of the audience, nationality, religion, culture, etc.”
In this video lesson Raúl Nieto Guridi addresses the topic: Reading code, 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
“Reading Code In this lesson, we’ll talk about the reading code, a way to codify our book, our illustrated book, our overall project, to optimize the reading experience and convey our message consistently with the content we're working with. To do that, let me show you some illustrated books I've made. This one, which we've already seen. It’s about a boy who wants to become a giant. The story's being told from a kid's point of view, so I wanted to keep the coding, that is, the graphics, the book style to be simple. I’m using pure colors, a really thick, powerful linework, without too many de...”
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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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