Creation and Development of Graphic Novels
Fraction the idea
A course by María Luque , Illustrator
About the video: Fraction the idea
Overview
“Making a graphic novel can seem like an endless task. We are going to divide our book into small units. How to think the chapters so that the project stops being overwhelming and becomes harmless?”
In this video lesson María Luque addresses the topic: Fraction the idea, 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
“Before starting and to avoid getting overwhelmed. the most important thing is to try to break our idea into small parts. Before writing my first novel I had never done long comics. but I had made short zines. maybe six. twelve. fourteen pages... six pages. twelve. fourteen... So. to not overwhelm myself and not feel the pressure of a long project. What I thought was to imagine it would be several zines together. that each chapter was a unit on its own and that helped me ease the fear a bit. These are the notebooks I used for my first novels. For example. This marks the initial division of s...”
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Course summary for: Creation and Development of Graphic Novels
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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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