Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
Design of the world of history
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez , Writer and comic artist
About the video: Design of the world of history
Overview
“In this lesson we will explain how to conceive, construct and represent the fantasy world that surrounds our characters and gives rise to the actions that develop our history. Explaining the criteria with which we select the design, according to the theme, and how we carry them out after a process that is both research and creative. Both this step, as the previous lesson, can be given at the beginning of the creative process, when one writes and draws his story, but, in the case of development of graphic narrative in team with another scriptwriter, is usually at this time of the process that the illustrator / draftsman develops these steps. This variation of the process, depending on the case, is essential to explain, especially for aspiring professionals. ”
In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Design of the world of history, 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
“The work of this lesson will consist of designing the world in which the characters in the story move. What is that? To be clear, based on the ideas that we captured in the script and the approximations made in the working miniatures, of what elements we need to design to draw the surroundings of the scenes of the vignettes that will compose the sequences of the story. In the case of this exercise, since the page that I will draw will definitely be the one, I will refer to what things appear in the thumbnail that I drew according to my script, and also according to the ideas that I wrote do...”
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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
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Category
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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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