Creation and Development of Graphic Novels
Influences
A course by María Luque , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“As a girl I did not read comics, but nevertheless I was very influenced by another type of narrative art: the Egyptian paintings and the Andean popular art, the Persian and Etruscan miniatures. I will tell you which were the first graphic novels that I read before encouraging me to start my own project.”
In this video lesson María Luque addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation and Development of Graphic Novels. Discover the process of creating a graphic novel from the conception of the idea to its publication.
Partial transcription of the video
“I was always interested in drawings, but as a girl I never read many comics. There were not in my house books of my older brothers of comics. Yes there were some Mafaldas and I read some of the strips that came out on the last page of the diary. I am Rosarina and then, in the newspaper of my city, you could read Fontana Rosa. And that was the only contact that I had with comics and with graphic narrations. But without realizing it, there were a lot of other images that I was looking at that told stories. As for example, I always liked the art of the Middle Ages a lot. One of my favorites is...”
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Course summary for: Creation and Development of Graphic Novels
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Narrative, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
María Luque
A course by María Luque
María Luque was born in Rosario, Argentina, and has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in her native country since 2005, as well as in Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. In addition to her work as an artist, she also works on projects in the field of editorial illustration and coordinates workshops and other creative activities, such as "Merienda dibujo," a series of meetings with artists that she started in 2011.
She is also the cofounder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo and participated in the anthology Informe, historieta argentina del siglo XXI, published by Editorial Municipal de Rosario. She is the author of La mano del pintor, a graphic novel about Cándido López (Sigilo, 2016, L'Agrume Éditions 2017);Casa transparente (Sexto Piso, Graphic Novel Award - Ibero-American Cities); and Noticias de pintores (Sigilo, 2019).
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