Design and Illustration of a Fanzine
A course by Violeta Hernández , Artist/Cartoonist/Illustrator/Designer
Illustrate your own story and learn basic techniques for editorial design
Illustrate your own story and learn basic techniques for editorial design
Violeta Hernández—illustrator, artist, and designer—teaches you various techniques to design and illustrate a fanzine.
Discover her working method, what inspires her (texts, illustrations, and stories), and briefly review the history of the fanzine, different printing methods, and materials.
Learn different manual and digital illustration techniques and how to edit your photos, make a layout, choose fonts, and lay out all the elements professionally.
What will you learn in this online course?
22 lessons & 41 downloads
- 97% positive reviews (253)
- 4,541 students
- 22 lessons (5h 17m)
- 41 additional resources (14 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Intermediate
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Make an illustrated fanzine, designed, printed, and packaged by you, that is ready to distribute.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is for designers, illustrators, artists, and all creatives eager to express themselves, illustrate their stories, or even better: illustrate their own stories and take them to print.
Requirements and materials
To take this course you need basic knowledge of drawing and design, a taste for short fantasy or fiction, and a basic level of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
Regarding the materials, you need pencils; papers of different textures, colors, and formats; a computer; a scanner; and a printer.
Reviews
A course by Violeta Hernández
Violeta Hernández is an artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and designer. Her lines follow an organic flow, and she is completely amazed by the perfection of nature, from its essence to its form.
She is constantly trying to create atmospheres where she would love to live, which she builds through the characters she creates.
Her main strength lies in freehand drawing, through which she is capable of creating monochrome landscapes in which she experiments mainly with the transition with transparencies and various color combinations.
Her work has been exhibited in different galleries around the world, including Monterrey, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Detroit, London, and Barcelona.
It can also be seen on various digital platforms and print media, such as Picnic magazine, ERRR magazine, Juxtapoz Latin America, NotCot.Org, NiceFuckingGraphics!, Prison For Young Offenders, Artvvork.com, FormFiftyFive.com, Artvvork.com, and Smile in Your Face.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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U2
Fanzine
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Introduction to the Fanzine
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Types of Fanzine
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U3
Idea and Planning
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Define theme and the texts of the Fanzine
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Formats, layout, inspiration and references of dummys
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U4
Illustration and Methodology
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Drawing 1
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Drawing 2
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Drawing 3
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Drawing 4
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Vector drawing 1
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Vector drawing 2
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Vector drawing 3
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U5
Digitization and Image editing
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Digitization and image assembly
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Armed Pattern and Seals
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Typographic selection
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Indesign armed file for printing 1
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Armed file indesign for printing 2
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Indesign armed file for printing 3
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Armed with dummy and binding 1
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Armed with dummy and binding 2
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Packaging and Distribution
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FP
Final project
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Design and illustration of a Fanzine
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
PlusIf you're a Plus member, get a custom certificate signed by your teacher for every course. Share it on your portfolio, social media, or wherever you like.
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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Watch professionally produced courses
Domestika curates its teacher roster and produces every course in-house to ensure a high-quality online learning experience.
FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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ozge_ozbasar
I liked the sources and links provided. I enjoyed your style as well. However, I think the tutorials could have shown the processes in more detail in the videos.
a_donnabianco
Noioso e i link alla maggior parte delle pagine consigliate risultano inesistenti o irraggiungibili.
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daloca_77
En general me pareció un curso muy bueno y muy completo, aprendí muchísimo.
Sin embargo, había ocasiones en donde me tocaba volver a ver ciertas partes de los videos porque las explicaciones eran muy planas y me perdía, a veces se tornaba aburrido el contenido.
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fgkeka1981
Bueno
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javiermartinezsancho
Habla demasiado centrándose poco en el contenido. No explica como imprimir el fanzine en la impresora casera.
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