Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks
The Sketch
A course by Gerald Espinoza , Illustrator
About the video: The Sketch
Overview
“Once the pages of the book have been outlined and the visual narration designed, it is the turn of the sketch. In this lesson you will see the fundamentals to compose an effective sketch.”
In this video lesson Gerald Espinoza addresses the topic: The Sketch , which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks. Develop a storyboard and explore different and unconventional techniques to tell stories full of emotion.
Partial transcription of the video
“the sketch In this lesson I will teach you how to make an effective sketch to create your double page. Remember my story was about a boy who was dressed as a frog for a contest, a play, and then more and more children in disguise joined until it became a chaos, a very complicated thing, and as more characters entered the scene, the public left disgusted until they reached the street and everything ended in chaos. I made a storyboard and a booklet. Here I placed each of the main scenes that I was going to have my story. Now I'm going to take one of these scenes and I'm going to create a sket...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Storyboard

Gerald Espinoza
A course by Gerald Espinoza
Gerald Espinoza is an illustrator and visual artist specializing in picturebooks. He is also the author and illustrator of his own books and winner of the 12th edition of the Catálogo Iberoamérica Ilustra competition (2021).
Gerald has illustrated folk tales, children's stories, and book covers for publishers like SM, Random House, and Ekare. He has also exhibited his artistic work in art galleries and similar venues across different countries.
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