Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch

About Me

A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator

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2,333 students

Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: About Me

Overview

“In this lesson I am going to tell you about myself and about the passion I have for expressing myself through drawings. I will also tell you about some influences and work I have done in terms of comics. ”

In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch. Come up with a story based on your own personal experience and create a comic ready to share on social media using storytelling techniques and vignettes.

Partial transcription of the video

“Presentation Welcome to this course. I'm Adriana de la Torre, but everyone knows me as Akimaro. I am a Mexican designer and for a few years I have specialized in illustration. Maybe you know me from my course "Illustration with manga influence" which is right here, at Domestika. One of my pasions what I have been doing for more than a year is to do comics full time. From a very young age I realized that I wanted to tell stories, since at family gatherings or parties I always ended up documenting what happened and making the drawings. I also always liked to draw anywhere I could and it was a...”

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Course summary for: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (46)
2333 students
4 units
12 lessons (1h 22m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling

Akimaro

A course by Akimaro

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Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Adriana De la Torre, also known as Akimaro, is a designer by profession and an illustrator by trade. Combining these two arts, she has devoted herself to helping clients find their voice and telling stories through images. Since she was 16, Adriana has been publishing comics independently and is the co-author of the webcomic Parellet, published since 2012 and with two volumes in print.
Recently, she has worked with publishers like Penguin Random House to create illustrations for a teenage demographic. She loves to experiment and combines her experience in graphic design with her interest in modern Japanese culture.