Specialization in cartoons and graphic humor

Course summary

• U1: Introduction

  • Introduction

  • Influences | Javier Royo

  • Influences | Óscar Alonso

  • Influences | Rocío Diestra

  • Influences | Trino Camacho

  • Influences | Ricardo Liniers

• U2: Creativity Techniques: A Playground of Drawing Ideas

  • Creativity, communication and neurons

  • Procrastinate, think, draw and share

  • Find your weirdness, find your motivation

  • Descriptive self-portrait

  • Analyze your capabilities and your limitations

  • Connect concepts

  • The importance of conceptualizing and simplifying stories

  • Concept map

  • A mutant form

  • Tame chance to get new ideas

  • Express ideas from different emotions

  • Find a story and simplify it

  • Thinking outside the box as normal

  • Turn one image into many graphic ideas

  • Playing a game of tennis with concepts

  • To break the rules

  • Communicate ideas from different media

  • Humor is the king of creativity

• U3: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe

  • Different cartoonists

  • Exercises to promote imagination

  • Ideas map

  • From concept to text

  • From text to image

  • A story with several vignettes

  • Digital drawing

  • Color and shade 1

  • Color and shade 2

  • Tips for social media

• U4: Digital Comic Illustration for Social Media

  • Storytelling in Advertising

  • From the Idea to the Comic

  • Illustration Basics in Procreate

  • Drawing Basics

  • Brief

  • Strategies and Script

  • Storyboard and Sketch

  • Line and color

  • Text

  • Export and Online Presence

• U5: The Art of Humor in Difficult Times: Creating Laughter in the Face of Adversity

  • What is humor?

  • Building a universal message

  • Humor and new formats

  • Ways and tools to create humor

  • How to find your own style

  • The construction of the punch

  • How to keep humor relevant

  • Making humor for different audiences

  • Tips for new comedians

  • Copyright and how to charge for your work

  • Teachers Podcast with Trino

• U6: Graphic Humor: Give us our Daily Comic Strip

  • Brief analysis of the history of the daily strip

  • Different humorous types

  • materials

  • Work space

  • What? - The idea -

  • Who? - Character -

  • How? - The process -

  • Decisions and color

  • Draw well vs draw funny

  • Commercial aspects

• Final project

  • Specialization in Cartoons and Graphic Humor