Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Final Image
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Final Image
Overview
“In this lesson you will intervene your illustrations printed with paper cutout or with other material. This will help them to have more visual strength, but at the same time manages to keep that warm part of the manual work.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Final Image, 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 Final image We already have our three images printed. Here I have the first image. What I like about all this series of steps we've done is that I can mix all the techniques and that I can rescue certain elements from each technique. If you remember, I made the background with watercolor wax pastels and the texture it leaves I like very much. I made these elements in paper cutout and you can also see that border that leaves the paper with the background, which I also really like. Also the texture of the colored cardboard with colored pencil It is something that I appreciate in the im...”
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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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