Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

Development and collection of material

A course by Gabriel Rodríguez, Writer and comic artist

Writer and comic artist. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined December 2018
100% positive reviews (183)
4,209 students
Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
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About the video: Development and collection of material

Overview

“In this lesson I will talk about how to guide interests and ideas, which will define the fantasy and science fiction story we want to tell in a story. Creating an adequate environment to develop the work, we document and begin to imagine the work of design, guided by the ideas and concepts that interest us, and how, letting the imagination fly, we can make creative decisions to turn them into a story. This will allow us to have an idea of the characteristics and dimensions of our project and give it life and nurture it with the topics that we are passionate about. And to close, how to keep a record of this process that results in an organized database and images, useful for later stages of work. ”

In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Development and collection of material, 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 first lesson of the course. what we are going to do is work on the development stage and the collection of material with which we will work on our project. This is a stage that tends to be rather chaotic or spontaneous. but the important thing is that all the ideas that come to mind. all the images that one finds that might be useful. are recorded so that one can use them later. More specifically. based on the project. The first thing I create a folder where I will organize all the material we will gather to work on the project. In this case... We will make a first folder called Swo...”

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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (183)
  • 4209 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 (183)
  • 4,209 students