Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
The shape games
A course by Paula Bossio , Designer, Illustrator, Author, and Teacher
About the video: The shape games
Overview
“In the illustration the game intervenes a lot, the one of the forms and the one of the perception of the figures. The richness of creation lies in the reinterpretation of objects and their morphologies. In this lesson we will see some alterations of the image that can be very useful in a narration without words.”
In this video lesson Paula Bossio addresses the topic: The shape games, 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
“Playing with Shapes In this lesson, we’ll work on playing with shapes. I once read something very interesting about Russian formalists, writers. Viktor Shklovsky was one of them. He and the Russian formalists suggested that everyday objects should be seen like for the first time whenever we come across them because therein lies the power to resignify them again, to give them a new outlook to transform them in favor of our creativity. Some time later I read about Gestalt. It is a branch of psychology that studies perception. They established some laws and I noticed that there are many design...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Silent Books: Tell Stories Without Words
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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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