Drawing for Comics with Procreate
How to get an idea?
A course by Laura Athayde , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: How to get an idea?
Overview
“Is inspiration key? Or can creativity be stimulated? In this class, I will talk about my experience creating comics from my daily life and also from themes proposed by clients. ”
In this video lesson Laura Athayde addresses the topic: How to get an idea?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing for Comics with Procreate. Combine text and drawing techniques on an iPad and turn your ideas into powerful comic strips, from the initial idea to the final publication.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to get an idea? In this class, I'll tell you how I come up with ideas for comics from proposed themes or from my daily life. everyone has something to say and creating comic strips is to reflect on the inner and outer world and communicate. They can be created from inspiration, that can arise in lived situations, in conversations. But there is also the exercise of creativity. One of the ways to exercise it is proposing themes for the creation of the strips. In 2015, I participated in a collective of artists in which each week one proposed a random theme and they all created stories base...”
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Course summary for: Drawing for Comics with Procreate
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Design, Digital Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Laura Athayde
A course by Laura Athayde
Laura Athayde is an illustrator and comic artist from Manaus, based in Belo Horizonte. Her comic strips, which convey reality with humor and warmth while also tackling important questions, have been published in magazines such as The Nib and POMEgranate.
She has also produced pieces for names like Netflix, Nivea, Telecine, and Casa Fiat de Cultura as well as illustrated for Record, Companhia das Letras, Planeta, and more. In 2018, she was a finalist for the Jabuti Award for Illustration and in 2019 she received the prestigious Troféu HQMIX for Best Independent Sole Publication with Histórias Tristes e Piadas Ruins. In 2022, her piece Aconteceu Comigo: Histórias de Mulheres Reais em Quadrinhos won the 37th Angelo Agostini Award.
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