From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
Making a clean copy of the sketch
A course by Paloma Valdivia , Illustrator, Writer and Editor
About the video: Making a clean copy of the sketch
Overview
“This work is intended to be done by hand, so in this lesson I will teach you how to make the final or original sketches. Some prefer to trace and use a new page, others can work on the sketch drawing; What matters is that you keep in mind that here we will obtain our final drawings and we must be detailed. ”
In this video lesson Paloma Valdivia addresses the topic: Making a clean copy of the sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story. Learn how to create a picture book starting from a personal story and an object from your childhood.
Partial transcription of the video
“K by Klaus Kinski Cleaning up the sketch In this lesson we will go through the process of clearing the sketch. It is intended to be handmade. Therefore, when passing clean, we can trace or draw looking. On the table I have the sketch that I made the previous choice, the materials, which would be the pencils, the leads of different thicknesses, It is a finite mechanical pencil, although I usually work rubber, rule and in my case, also a light table, which helps me to trace and draw more precisely the above drawing. Of course it is not necessary to use a light table. If you don't have a light...”
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Course summary for: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Paloma Valdivia
A course by Paloma Valdivia
With a design degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a postgraduate degree in illustration from the Escola d'Art i Disseny de Barcelona, illustrator, writer, and publisher Paloma Valdivia has taken the children and young adult’s books world by storm.
With work translated into more than twenty languages, she has been recognized internationally with the New Horizon Award of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), the BIB PLAQUÉ of the Bratislava Biennial of Illustration (Slovakia), the Municipal Literature Award of Santiago (Chile), The Best Book Awards granted by UNESCO and the German Graphic Arts Foundation, and the Little Bird Award, among others.
Besides having her own publishing house dedicated exclusively to children’s books, Ediciones Liebre, Paloma has collaborated with publishers and entities including Amanuta (Chile), Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico), Kalandraka (Spain), La Joie de Lire (Switzerland), Fatatrac, (Italy), and Enchanted Lion Books (USA).
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