Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques

Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques

“We have reached the end of the course and I thank you very much for having undertaken this adventure with me. Before I say goodbye, I would like to recap what I did throughout the lessons and offer you some final tips so that you can now embark on your own journey. I started by talking to you about narrative illustration and its most important components. Putting observation and gazing into practice, I chose some objects from my surroundings to inspire me.

This awakened my imagination and allowed me to weave a narrative thread for the illustration. From these reflections, I built the characters, gave them gestures and expression. Later, I chose some objects around me so that their forms became the elements of the environment where the action of the characters will take place. Through the collage technique, I began to compose and tried different options until I reached the final composition. Almost to finish, I gave color to the illustration, for that, I told you about the importance of color palettes in creating atmospheres that convey emotions. With practice and researching more about color, you will begin to identify which colors are the right ones to enhance your image. Using acrylics, gouache, polychrome pencil and graphite pencils, I showed you what my painting process is like with the techniques that I usually use. Don't forget to explore different materials to give your illustrations visual textures. Finally, I digitized the illustration using a scanner (remember that if you don't have one handy, you can always take a picture). I shared the criteria to take into account to preserve the colors as faithfully as possible, I made some basic adjustments in Photoshop and I left the illustration ready to print or share on social networks. I hope that what I have transmitted will help you to lose your fear of the blank page and that your creative process becomes a game that allows you to discover narrative sequences to create your own illustrated story. Experiment with different techniques and exercise observation, you never know what you can count if you stop to look around you. Before saying goodbye, I want to invite you to share your project the way I have done it, I will love to see your process and your final illustration. Do not hesitate to go to the forum for any questions you have, bear with me but I will surely respond to the best of my ability. Dare to participate, give advice, ask questions and share your work with other students, the conversation will always enrich your look. Bye! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project We've reached the end of our course. Thank you so much for being a part of it. Sometimes we want to illustrate, but we don't know what to say, how to say it, or where to start. In this course, we've learned how to instrumentalize our gaze in order to find our subject. We've also learned what narrative illustration is and what it's made of. Then we've applied our observation technique to choose the objects that would later turn into our characters and the surrounding elements. We created some expressive characters with an interesting body language. Then we used collage to put t...”

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Course summary for: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 2611 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 17m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Collage, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration