Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories
A course by Paula Bossio , Children’s Books Author & Illustrator
Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories
Learn the basic resources to narrate and illustrate your own stories
Illustration can be a determining tool in the narration of a story since it can reinforce it and offer specific nuances. But in addition, there are other narrative resources that the author and illustrator of children's stories Paula Bossio explains in this course, which you can apply to your own stories and exercise your creative abilities when narrating them.
Learn to be more aware of the importance of each of the elements that make up an illustrated image. Through exercises, you will see how to be more proactive and creative in illustrating your stories and you will exercise your ability to narrate visually, going beyond the creation of purely decorative illustrations.
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 29 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (1.2K)
- 21,960 students
- 20 lessons (4h 11m)
- 29 additional resources (15 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create a short and illustrated 8-page narration, inspired by a classic story but containing a narrative twist. You must include a time alteration, a sequential resource, and propose a format modification.
Projects by course students
![the WOLF, the BUNNY & their Azalea [My project for course: Narrative Techniques for Illustrated Stories]. Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting, Stor, telling, Stor, board, Children's Illustration, Narrative, and Fiction Writing project by NGUYEN SIMONE - 10.06.2023](https://cdn.domestika.org/c_fill,dpr_2.0,f_auto,h_210,pg_1,t_base_params,w_210/v1696589229/project-covers/001/663/446/1663446-original.jpg?1696589229)
Who is this online course for?
All those who like picture books and everyone who is passionate about telling stories through drawing and wants to experiment and be creative.
Of course, also to artists, illustrators, reading enthusiasts, teachers, writers, students, designers, animators, and visual artists.
Requirements and materials
Basic drawing skills are required. You don't need to be able to draw professionally, but you do need to be able to clearly express an idea.
You need a comfortable workspace, mixed media papers, brushes, colors, watercolors, pencils, markers, a notebook, scissors, a cutter, and a stapler.
Reviews
A course by Paula Bossio
Paula Bossio is a graphic designer, illustrator, author of children's books and teacher. She is passionate about stories: seeing them, listening to them, reading them, but above all, creating them. For this reason, in recent years she has devoted herself to the study of the image as a narrative tool.
She has worked as an author and illustrator in publishers such as Penguin Randon House, PigeonHole Books, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Alfaguara, GatoMalo, Usborne Books, among others, and has also worked as an illustration teacher at the Faculty of Graphic Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Universidad Areandina and Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá (Colombia).
In addition, she has received national and international awards for her illustrations: in Japan (Noma Concours), in India (Katha Chitrakala Award), in Mexico (A la Orilla del Viento and Caniem Award), in Colombia (Ministerio de Cultura y Fundalectura), in Italy (Silent Books), and in Korea (Nami Award).
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
First narrative resources
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The Story and its Components
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Counting through the nonlinear
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Telling the story through the object
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U3
Language of the images
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Telling stories through the visual
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Telling stories through composition
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Telling stories through sequence
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Telling stories through the functional. Part 1
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Telling stories through the functional. Part 2
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U4
Experimenting with the story
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Preparation to narrate in sequence and quick sketching techniques
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Fast colorization techniques. Part 1
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Fast colorization techniques. Part 2
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Experimenting with the plot and the relationship between characters
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Experimenting with the nonlinear and with the object
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Experimenting with plastic and compositional elements
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Experimenting with sequential and functional elements
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U5
Assembling the final model
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In search of the story and the images
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The colorization and final assembly of the model
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FP
Final project
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Narrative techniques for illustrated stories
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FAQs
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danylou37
PlusO curso e muito bom, ainda não completei todas as etapas mas até agora gostei muito
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magdagonzalezsonora
Excelente
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anagodoy
Muy completo y sistematizado. Totalmente recomendado
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sze
It was very informative; the instructor provided a lot of in-depth explanations and examples. Great course.
braintickle
PlusI greatly enjoyed this course. Paula is an terrific illustrator. her many examples and demonstrations of how to tell a story, gave me valuable insights. Thank you Paula.
John from Sydney Australia.