Introduction to Autobiographical Comics
How are text and image related?
A course by Mariano Diaz Prieto , Cartoonist and Illustrator
Joined September 2018
About the video: How are text and image related?
Overview
“Now, we will add text to our drawing. For this we will use dialogue balloons, text boxes, thoughts and arrows with notes. ”
In this video lesson Mariano Diaz Prieto addresses the topic: How are text and image related?, 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 will see how to relate text to image and we will also see how to generate a sequence, that is, a montage of time between image and image. For that here I have a drawing that we had made in the previous unit, which is a composition of figures and background, and what I did based on this drawing or general scheme, where I proposed the composition, is to make a sketch a little bit more finished of the same. In this first square we have what it would be our first cartoon bullet that now we see it isolated, simply as a composition with characters. When we generate a bullet cartoo...”
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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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