Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Organizing the graphic narration
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Organizing the graphic narration
Overview
“In this lesson you will organize the graphic elements to tell your story. You will draw each element separately to make compositions until you find the most suitable one for your project. You will work on the sketches of your final images.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Organizing the graphic narration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the process of telling a story through a sequence of illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Unit 3 Organizing the graphic narration In this lesson you will organize the graphic elements of your story and the idea is that you draw each element separately and with that you can make compositions and from there start working on sketches of your story. We already have the fundamental elements, which are the character and three sentences from the story. The idea that I propose is that from each sentence you draw each element. For example, my phrase is: "Nicanor looks at the heavenly bird from the window and sighs in the jungle." I will start drawing each item. I will start drawing Nican...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Paper Craft, Traditional illustration
Estelí Meza
A course by Estelí Meza
Estelí Meza is a Mexican illustrator specialized in children’s books, who also works with magazines and creates book covers for imprints in Mexico, Spain, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
Since 2007 she has dedicated 100% of her professional life to illustration. She is the author of three illustrated books: Lino Felino, Angustia, and El Príncipe Valiente tiene miedo. Her main clients include editorials such as Scholastic, Anaya, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Kalimat, Penguin Random House, among others, and she has worked with other clients such as Google.
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