Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books
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A course by Juan Camilo Mayorga , Illustrator
Joined November 2020
About the video: The text
Overview
“In this lesson I will read you the text with which I will work. Generally, you will receive the document with the phrases or lines of text separated by moments, which will become double pages. In this document you will begin to underline keywords, identify characters, places and concepts that will help you find the visual path that the story can take.”
In this video lesson Juan Camilo Mayorga addresses the topic: The text, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books. Give life to a children’s story by creating an illustrated universe using digital and analogue techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“The text In this course I will show you my creative process in the interpretation of illustrated books. We will explore different techniques based mainly on watered down, like watercolor, gouache, and we will also add other possibilities like collage, cutout paper, greasy pastels and what we really have available to create powerful images. As a final project, we will make three illustrations where we will see a consistency throughout the lessons so that they generate a consistent visual unit, which is very typical of album books and picture books. In this first moment, I want to show you th...”
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Course summary for: Watercolor and Mixed Media for Illustrated Books
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Juan Camilo Mayorga
A course by Juan Camilo Mayorga
A native of Colombia, Juan Camilo Mayorga studied Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, where he developed an interest in illustration, art, and a special taste for book illustration, especially the picturebook format, for the creative freedom that the illustrator has in interpreting a story.
After graduating from college, he published his first book Nicolás Aprende Los Números (SM, 2012), where he was able to put into practice the experimentation he had been doing with watercolor. This was the beginning of several collaborations both locally (Colombia) and internationally with the publishing companies including SM, Castillo, Rey Naranjo, El Naranjo, Loqueleo, and Norma.
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