Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

Drawing of the final pencil page

A course by Gabriel Rodríguez , Writer and comic artist

Writer and comic artist. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined December 2018
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3,987 students
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About the video: Drawing of the final pencil page

Overview

“This is our last step. In this lesson we will present how the drawing of the final pencils of the page that seems most entertaining and / or relevant to us, previously chosen from the sequence of four or five pages that we draw in miniature, culminates. Part of the work process of this piece we will have previously shown in the two previous lessons, but in this case, we will focus on the total final work. In the two previous lessons, the focus was on the design contents, developed according to the needs of the subject. In this lesson, we will focus mainly on the final result of the page as a complete entity, from the narrative point of view: what it contributes to the story and how. ”

In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Drawing of the final pencil page, 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

“Welcome to lesson three of this unit, where finally we will reach the climax of the entire process we developed from the previous lessons. Let's now draw our comic page. In this stage somehow combine all the materials and elements that we developed in previous stages. It's all part of the same creative process. It is always good to have at hand the other material we have worked on, the script, the graphic references and the working miniatures, so that everything will help us in the work of this final stage. It is important to keep in mind that in creative processes long-winded one is not al...”

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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (176)
  • 3987 students
  • 4 units
  • 14 lessons (2h 56m)
  • 8 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Comic, Traditional illustration

Gabriel Rodríguez

Gabriel Rodríguez
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez

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Writer and comic artist

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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Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics. Illustration course by Gabriel Rodríguez

Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

A course by Gabriel Rodríguez
Writer and comic artist. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined December 2018
  • 100% positive reviews (176)
  • 3,987 students