Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories
Choice of colors
A course by Takoua Ben Mohamed , Graphic Journalist and Author
Joined March 2022
Joined March 2022
About the video: Choice of colors
Overview
“Choosing color is like choosing the tone of the story. Based on the history, the tone and the places and cultures that you go to draw, you also choose the shades of color that you will use to color everything. For example: tell some areas of Africa has its colors, the color of the earth, of the roads, of the trees, the sky, the sea, the air, the houses and even the colors of their clothes. Every country, every culture and place on earth has its own specificity in the colors of the environments, but the tone of the story is also influenced by the feelings you tell, which can be translated into colour: cold colors can convey sadness, warm colors anger, etc. Let's see how this works in my course project. ”
In this video lesson Takoua Ben Mohamed addresses the topic: Choice of colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories. Use the drawing to represent a true story, news, or event giving voice and face to its protagonists. .
Partial transcription of the video
“Choice of colors In this lesson, we'll look at it together how to color our cartoons. Usually, I prepare a color palette for each detail. For example, for longer projects, it is necessary to prepare a color palette because you reproduce the colors on still other pages, so you remember the exact code of the color you are using for the complexion of the same character that repeats itself on several pages, the hair color that is repeated on several pages, the details of the trees, the sky, etc. So you need to have the exact color code and the exact shade of the colour. For example, for the his...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories
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Category
Illustration, Writing -
Areas
Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Takoua Ben Mohamed
A course by Takoua Ben Mohamed
Takoua Ben Mohamed is an author and cartoonist of graphic journalism comics, specialized in animation cinema at the Nemo Academy of Digital Arts in Florence. She began to use her drawings to tell the story of her family members, political activists against the Tunisian dictatorship of Ben Ali who were later exiled to Italy.
Awarded numerous awards, including the Special Award for Best Graphic Journalism at European level (2019), she was defined as Woman of the Year by the magazine D - la Repubblica delle donne (2021). Among his most famous titles are Under the veil (ed. Becco Giallo) and My best friend is a fascist (Rizzoli).
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