Introduction to Autobiographical Comics
Everyday life in the notebook
A course by Mariano Diaz Prieto , Cartoonist and Illustrator
Joined September 2018
About the video: Everyday life in the notebook
Overview
“Here I will show you how I use the notebook to record my daily life and how I find situations to turn them into cartoons. ”
In this video lesson Mariano Diaz Prieto addresses the topic: Everyday life in the notebook, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Autobiographical Comics. Learn to turn your own experiences into short comics.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this unit we are going to start drawing, but for that we are going to use a resource that is very useful and practical for me, which is the notebook. The notebook is a resource that I have used for years to record the things I do in comics or what drawing. In general, he made loose notes of situations that I see, objects ... In this case it is a trip to a fair where there were used objects. Sometimes there are loose drawings that occur to me, documentations, as in this case, page layouts, loose sketches, some photo-based sketches ... But over time it happened to me that this guy of sketc...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Autobiographical Comics
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Mariano Diaz Prieto
A course by Mariano Diaz Prieto
Mariano Díaz, also known as Marianoenelmundo, has a long career as an illustrator for publishers in Spain and Latin America. In more recent history, he has focused his efforts on producing autobiographical vignettes in four panels that he creates on paper with watercolor and shares on his social media and his blog.
In addition to the series of short cartoons he posts online, he has published two silent books, Mondo babosa and Doña Elba, that tell fantasy stories.
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