Creation and Development of Graphic Novels
Share the process
A course by María Luque , Illustrator
About the video: Share the process
Overview
“As our project progresses, doubts arise, with whom can we share and discuss? How to get a first reader that makes us sincere returns? How to work with an editor (ideally) or how to invent an editor (if we do not have a real one)?”
In this video lesson María Luque addresses the topic: Share the process, 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
“Our graphic novel project is already moving forward and surely in the process we will have doubts. Is the story understood? Maybe the dialogue that I was writing is very forced. We will see all kinds of questions and we will need someone to talk to. The ideal is to have a first reader, someone with whom you have confidence but who is not for example your mom, someone who does not go to tell you the truth, he loves you too much and everything you show him is going to look beautiful. That person does not work, because we do not need to be told that our work is beautiful and that they love us,...”
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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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