From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
Working with graphite and ink
A course by Paloma Valdivia , Illustrator, Writer and Editor
About the video: Working with graphite and ink
Overview
“Now I will show you how to use graphite and black ink to illustrate your final drawing. If you prefer to use a well-loaded lead pencil or both to generate more textures and grays, you can. ”
In this video lesson Paloma Valdivia addresses the topic: Working with graphite and ink, 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
“G de Gabriela Work with graphite and ink In this lesson I will teach you to work with graphite and ink. With graphite we can work shadows, different shades of gray and with the ink, as it is stronger, We will give intensity to the object that we want to make it look more. We will continue working with the same materials. We have graphite pencils of different hardness and also of different mine. A finite lead pencil. I love 0.3 because with it I can make details. Ink pencils that have a fine point, a disposable rapidrograph. The one I like is the dry brush and another that is also a dry brus...”
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Course summary for: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
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Category
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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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