Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
What We Will Do in This Course?
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: What We Will Do in This Course?
Overview
“In this lesson, I will lay out what you will learn in this course.”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: What We Will Do in This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“What we'll do in this course In this course, you will make your very own beautiful book cover, and to do this, I will first show you a little bit about the history of book covers. And I myself have looked at a lot of book covers in my life, and I've noticed certain patterns that repeat themselves. I want to show these to you. Then you will choose your own book cover to illustrate and done that, we will have a look at what the competition does so we can see what to do and what not to do. Once you've chosen your book cover, we will do thumbnail sketches. This is the moment where you can exper...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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