Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
The Sketch
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: The Sketch
Overview
“Choosing an idea for a story can take a lot of exploration, research, and patience, but starting to shape it into a more concrete outline can be a more time-consuming task. Come with me to make my first sketch to show you how I achieve an initial storyboarding process.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: The Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words. Explore narrative techniques and illustrative possibilities to tell amazing wordless stories in a clear and concise way .
Partial transcription of the video
“The Sketch In this lesson, we'll start transforming our first sketch, our storyboard. Remember that our main theme is serendipity, an unexpected encounter. That's why we did an exercise where we took one column of animals and another of objects and choose one of each to associate them. In my case, I chose the crocodile and the umbrella. That was the story I chose. It's good to have several ideas, as I mentioned, so you have options to choose from, but for me, this was the one that piqued my curiosity. First, I'm going to explain what the three main dramatic acts are and how can we make a na...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Paula Bossio
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, and children's book author who is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them... but above all, creating them. She has won national and international awards for her illustrations, including the Nami Award (Korea), the Noma Concours (Japan), and the A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem awards (Mexico), among others.
She has worked as an author and illustrator for publishers such as Penguin Random House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, and more, and has also worked as an illustration teacher in the Graphic Design Faculty of Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Universidad Areandina, and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá.
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