Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
Influences
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez , Writer and comic artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I have reviewed different works of artists and creatives from different disciplines, which have influenced me and whose work and projects I have been learning over these years.”
In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics. Create fantasy comic strips from the technical script to the sheet in pencil.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will review the way one works with the influences that one has for his creative process. It's very difficult, in any creative work, have 100% original ideas Everything is influenced by our previous experiences, either for what we read, for the music we hear or the same life experiences that one has. All that affects you as creator when deciding what story to tell, how to count it and with what tools to work. In my case, I have read many different comics, with many different graphic styles and with visions of many artists from a young age. I was lucky that in my house there...”
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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Traditional illustration

Gabriel Rodríguez
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez
Gabriel Rodríguez Pérez studied architecture at the Catholic University of Chile, although he has been dedicated exclusively to comic drawing and screenwriting for almost fifteen years. At the end of 2002 he published his first comic book for IDW Publishing and since then he has worked with them on more than thirty editorial projects.
In 2008 he created, along with screenwriter Joe Hill, the horror and fantasy series Locke & Key, which has been extended from two graphic novels to a series of six books in more than fifteen languages and an adaptation as a series for Netflix.
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