Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Let's go digital
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Let's go digital
Overview
“I will tell you about the basics of scanning an image with very good resolution and I will show you how I work with my images in Photoshop to do the necessary touches and illustrate the digital elements. When I'm done, I'll have my three images ready to print on cotton paper.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Let's go digital, 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 4 Let's go digital We already have our images worked in a traditional way. We already cut some elements, we also already pasted them, Now we will go digital. Let's start. I'll open a file the size I've been working on. Size is 30.5 by 22.9 and the resolution at 300 dpi. This is the minimum resolution I am working on. They can make it bigger, but I think 300 is fine. I have a very simple scanner, I scan the image at 300 and when it's very large, like here, scanning by parts. Here is the left side and here I have the right side. What I will do now is cut, remove what does not work for me...”
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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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